CECILIA
Is it really all over with Philine?
AMADEUS
That was all over—(rising) before you left. And you know it. I really don't think it's necessary to discuss bygone matters.
CECILIA
Will she be able to stay in the company, by the way—after this scandal in connection with your—pardon me!—predecessor?
AMADEUS
Everything has been arranged, I hear. And she has even made up with her husband again.
CECILIA
Is that so?—That's rather unpleasant, don't you think? At bottom, it matters very little then to have the story all over. In the case of a man who has the disconcerting habit of not finding out certain things until months afterward....