There's something uncanny about that affair.
AMADEUS
Why? I think it's quite commonplace. A husband who has discovered his wife's (sarcastically) "disloyalty"....
ALBERT
That wasn't the point. But that he discovers it only six months too late, when his wife is already deceiving him with another man.—There would have been nothing peculiar about the Count having a fight with you. But the case is much more complicated. Here we have a young man all but killed because of an affair that is long past. And in the meantime you are left perfectly unmolested—or have been so far, at least.
AMADEUS (walking as before)
ALBERT
Do you know, what I almost regret—looking at it from a higher viewpoint? That the painter is not a man of genius ... and that the Count hasn't really killed him. That would have put something tremendously tragi-comical into the situation. And that's what would have happened, if ... he up there had a little more wit....
AMADEUS
How? What do you mean by that?