She made no answer and he went on: "What's the use? You gave me my first glimpse at a real life, and at the same moment you asked me to go on with a sham one. it's beyond all human enduring - that's all".

"Oh, don't say that; when I'm enduring it!", she burst out, her eyes filling.

--Edith Wharton, 'The Age of Innocence'