AMADEUS
Why shouldn't he? A good waltz and a good hymn are just as acceptable to the powers above.
FREDERIQUE
How delightful those evenings in your house used to be! No farther back than last winter.... The Count and I frequently talk of them.—Have you ceased to invite Prince Sigismund, as you have me?
AMADEUS
He was here only a fortnight ago, my dear Countess—and spent the whole evening with us. We had supper in the summer-house, and then we came in here and sat chatting for a long while, and finally he improvised some variations on the Cagliostro Waltzes before he left.—And what my wife and he say to each other during their walk, when I am not with them, will no more be hidden from me than I would hide from her what you and I have been talking of here. That's how my wife and I feel toward each other—if you'll please understand, Frederique!
FREDERIQUE
But there are things one simply can't say to each other.
AMADEUS
There can be no secrets between people like my wife and myself.