I shall ask for everything else after the play.
Actress
(Hurt) You can beg a long while then, you abominable poseur.
Count
But, see, we’ve been perfectly frank with each other so far … it seems to me it would be so much more beautiful after the play … much cozier than now, when … I have a sort of feeling the door might open any moment…
Actress
It does not open from the outside.
Count
Well, you see, I have an idea one shouldn’t lightly spoil in advance something which may be very beautiful.