“You think you‘re doing me a favor by staying away!”
“Essentially.”
“Well, you‘re taking a lot for granted, Mr. Turner. First of all, how do you know I‘m going to want you to love me?”
“Experience,” he said wryly. “I have yet to encounter the opposite problem.”
“You‘re in such high demand that you‘ve grown arrogant?”
“Failure hardly makes me arrogant. It does, however, make me want to avoid running into the same brick wall.”