You continue to speak to me as a politician and not a friend. You tell me to speak plain, and yet you refuse to do the same. I had not expected you to have an answer for me, yet I expected aught closer to an admission of attraction solely to women. You wound me by forcing me to chase you round the core of the matter!

[He is overcome by compulsion, the need to show Estinien how things could be. He grabs Estinien by the shoulder and leans in, trying to press his mouth against Estinien's. In his mind, the mania blots out the obvious danger of this maneuver. ]