Yes! I agree that "love" in that context is a deliberate move to elaborate
>and intensify the obvious denial of sexual tention there.
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Whoa!!! I didn't mean to suggest there were any sexual undertones between
Neil and Marianne. Intimacy and sex are two different things. Doesn't
Marianne say something like "of course we have a relationship. A
relationship doesn't mean hopping into bed together!"
Mark
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