Mary's brow furrows and she puts her cup carefully back down on the saucer.

"Do you mean what I must think of the fact that you are... a homosexual?" she asks. "I know such people exist, John. It does not shock or disgust me. I do not think less of you."

That might surprise him, she knows, but she's surprisingly accepting of quite a few things that would scandalize most people in the 1920s.