How we cite our quotes: (Name of Play, Act #)
Quote #10
LAVINIA: I can't marry you, Peter. You mustn't ever see me again. GO home. Make it up with your mother and Hazel. Marry someone else. Love isn't permitted to me. The dead are too strong.
PETER: Vinnie! You can't—! You've gone crazy! What's changed you like this? Is it—what Orin wrote? What was it? I've got a right to know, haven't I? He acted so queer about—what happened to you on the Islands. Was it something there—something to do with that native—
LAVINIA: Peter! Don't you dare! All right! Yes, if you must know! I won't lie anymore! Orin suspected I'd lusted with him, and I had!
PETER: Vinnie! You've gone crazy! I don't believe—You—you couldn't!
LAVINIA: Why shouldn't I? I wanted him! I wanted to learn love from him—love that wasn't a sin! And I did, I tell you! He had me! I was his fancy woman!
PETER: Then—Mother and Hazel were right about you—you are bad at heart—no wonder Orin killed himself—God, I—I hope you'll be punished—I—!
LAVINIA: Peter! It's a lie! I didn't—! Good-bye, Peter.
Peter's whole problem is that Lavinia behaved in a way that a high-class lady shouldn't. Lavinia knew this would make him break it off. We guess even somebody as all-around nice and wholesome as Peter has his issues too, huh?