Cheap melodrama. Very dull.

You sound like a bad melodrama.

That sounds medieval. Something out of an old melodrama.

You're a melomaniac. Not for music, but for melodrama!

I dislike people behaving like characters in some melodrama, with no regard for the serious consequences of a gesture dictated by impulse or by unforgivable thoughtlessness.

Well, if you're lucky, you might get off with, now, let me see a couple of years, which you will spend in Holloway prison meditating on the folly of transmuting melodrama into real life.