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. It will only be because I have not found what I sought. Through whose fault, I wonder? But I shall not turn back, I promise you, come what will!

. Then you will love me forever?

. If your love is the love I have hoped to find in the world.

. What do you mean?

. I have already told you that I shall never turn back.

. Do you realize our situation? Look at these letters.

. Bills of course, creditors, the bankers close their vaults, a few lines of friendly advice… I knew it, I expected it.

. Hitherto you have merely renounced the disadvantages of your rank. Will you be equal also to renouncing its advantages?

. No, I shall renounce nothing. I shall fight for our love. We need money and I intend to get it. My cousin, Prince Stephen, has promised to present the Comte de Tournerelles.

. Have you been talking with your cousin? Will you permit him to present the Comte de Tournerelles? Do you realize what that implies socially? You will be obliged to recognize the Prince's wife and the Comte's mistress, yes, and their whole circle of fortune-hunters and adventurers. No, no, it is out of the question. We are observed from the Court of Suavia. If our conduct is correct as befits our station, the Emperor may relent, but if we receive these people

. Why not acknowledge at once that all your hopes are based upon the Emperor's consent to my divorce, so that I shall again become Princess of Suavia, and then you will be Prince Consort at my side? Is that it?