Without you, what would a poor boy do?

"Oh, Flora, what ever would I do without you?"

"Flounder, probably. Die. Starve. Any of the above."

"That sounds suspiciously familiar...you're quite sure that's what'll happen?"

"No. I only said 'probably', after all."

"In other words, you're liable for nothing?"

"Nothing at all."

"Not even for having said so?"

"Of course not."

"Yet you expect me to love you anyway?"

"Of course."

"And if I don't?"

"That, you're liable for."

"And I'll have done exactly what to deserve that?"

"Poor decision-making."

"I've never done such a thing in my life."

"No, but I might have."

"Really?"

"Of course not."