I mean are you happy the way things are in general?

Miss

Well, they might be better.

Poet

You misunderstand me. You have told me enough about your conditions at home. I know you are not a princess. Leaving all that aside, do you feel alive. Do you feel life pulsing through you?

Miss

Come, have you a comb?

Poet

(Goes to the dressing-table, hands her a comb, and watches her) Good Lord, how lovely you look!