CECILIA
That's what we have been talking of all the time, I suppose.
AMADEUS
Yes, you are right. At bottom it is better that we put it into plain words at last. Our moods have been rather too precarious lately.
CECILIA
Everything will be improved now.
AMADEUS
Improved...? Why?... Oh, of course ... perhaps you are right. I feel almost as if things had already begun to improve. It's strange, but ... one ... seems to breathe more freely.
CECILIA
Yes, Amadeus, now we are reaping the reward of always having been honest. Think how exhausted most people would be in a moment like this—by all sorts of painful evasions, labored truces, and pitifully sentimental reconciliations. Think of the hostile spirit in which they would be facing each other during their moment of belated candor. We two, Amadeus—we shall at least be able to part as friends. (Pause)