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. What did I tell you? I could not help myself.

. Highness!

. Don't call me Highness; my name is Helena. Why did you object to meeting me?

. I? Who told you so?

. Oh, I did not mind! We are going to become very fond of each other.

. Possibly. Pardon, I was speaking with the Comtesse…

. Stephen, look at Herr Rosmer and your wife. They are disgusted; it mortifies them to see us such good friends. They are afraid that we may forget ourselves and commit some blunder, or fail in etiquette.

. I believe you are right.

. They deserve—well, they do deserve it.

. What?

. Nothing! Was it worth while to defy the world and to revolutionize our hearts just for this? They deserve to have us remember who we are, since they are not able to forget it.

Curtain