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 This isn't what you'd like to do. [She obstructs way.]

—Perhaps not, your highness.

—That isn't what you'd like to say.

—Perhaps not.

—But if you can control yourself so perfectly now, why didn't you last night? [Angrily.] That's what I want to know.

—I'll stay a week.

—[More and more hysterically.] If you can be so calm now, why weren't you calm then? Why did you do what you did? Why? Why? What did you want?

—I don't know. That is the strangest part of what happened last night. I didn't quite know what I wanted.

—You didn't know?

—No.

—You didn't know, and yet

—My child be calm  I'll stay a fortnight.

—[With growing indignation, unheeding him.] He didn't know what he wanted yet he dragged me along with him appealed to my sympathy  my credulity  dragged me and I clung to him  ready for anything even my own destruction even if the whole world crumbled to pieces  I would have clung to him