"Just supposing," he said, "just supposing" — he didn't know what was coming next, so he thought he'd just sit back and listen — "that there was some… - Douglas Adams

"Just supposing," he said, "just supposing" — he didn't know what was coming next, so he thought he'd just sit back and listen — "that there was some extraordinary way in which you were very important to me, and that, though you didn't know it, I was very important to you, but it all went for nothing because we only had five miles and I was a stupid idiot at knowing how to say something very important to someone I've only just met and not crash into lorries a the same time, what would you say..." He paused, helplessly, and looked at her.

"I should do."