As Tietjens saw the world, you didn't "talk." Perhaps you didn't even think about how you felt.

“So I shall just imagine myself for a fortnight or so at one side of the firepla…”

“Is the whole thing a folly and a mockery? Am I no better than a eunuch or is th…”

“But the real fierceness of desire, the real heat of a passion long continued an…”

“He was in a beastly hole. But decency demanded that he shouldn't act in panic. …”