...one of my favorite scenes in the book.

] Catherine is oblivious. I don't think she's even really listening to him, she just wants to get away from him. It takes her four "good days" before she can escape.

I agree. The best lines have to be:

"And then you know"--twisting himself about and forcing a foolish laugh--"I say, then you know, we may try the truth of this same old song." [Going to one marriage brings another]

"May we? But I never sing.

I love Catherine!