"Because we talked 'bout it before I ever let you into my bed. Dontcha remember? No picket fences, no happily ever after ... ?"
She shakes her head, searching him out for any glimmer of recollection, any hint of understanding. She thought she'd exposed herself rather neatly back then, but now she's questioning whether he was ever on the same page with her at all.
"Why didja think I got so mad when y'got all suspicious of John an' Jim? Or when y'left the way y'did over Christmas an' came back demandin' answers from me? Tommy, I'm — I know y'do this sorta thing every day, an' I was jus' another notch in your bedpost by the time we got together, but what I meant when I said 'that's why you're the only man I'm seein',' is you're the only man I'm seein'. When y'leave me, there ain't gonna be nobody else comin' t'call. No respectable man is gonna bed a woman who's slept around. No weddin' ring, no picket fences, no happily ever after. With anybody."
She pauses to see if any of that is sinking in.
"Don't y'know how much of myself I trusted you with when I invited y'up t'my room that first time? How terrified I was? D'you have any idea how hard it would be t'do that with anybody else?"
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"Because we talked 'bout it before I ever let you into my bed. Dontcha remember? No picket fences, no happily ever after ... ?"
She shakes her head, searching him out for any glimmer of recollection, any hint of understanding. She thought she'd exposed herself rather neatly back then, but now she's questioning whether he was ever on the same page with her at all.
"Why didja think I got so mad when y'got all suspicious of John an' Jim? Or when y'left the way y'did over Christmas an' came back demandin' answers from me? Tommy, I'm — I know y'do this sorta thing every day, an' I was jus' another notch in your bedpost by the time we got together, but what I meant when I said 'that's why you're the only man I'm seein',' is you're the only man I'm seein'. When y'leave me, there ain't gonna be nobody else comin' t'call. No respectable man is gonna bed a woman who's slept around. No weddin' ring, no picket fences, no happily ever after. With anybody."
She pauses to see if any of that is sinking in.
"Don't y'know how much of myself I trusted you with when I invited y'up t'my room that first time? How terrified I was? D'you have any idea how hard it would be t'do that with anybody else?"