"And, besides, look who's talking." "What do you mean?" she asked. "You're the one who's killed two people. Not me." She stared at me. "Yes," she said. "But even hate is an emotion." "I guess so," I said. "But there's not much money in it."

She calls him vulgar after he tries to kiss her, so he reminds her she has actually killed two people; she calls hate an emotion and he undercuts her with pure greed

— Madelon Butler in A Touch of Death (Charles Williams, 1953)


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