If you hold it the shortest road to what I have in mind...?
ALBERT
There's a man of honor for you! And is that the discretion you owe the woman you love, do you think?
AMADEUS
Call me illogical, ungenerous, indiscreet—anything you please! I can't help myself! I love Cecilia—do you hear? And I want to go on living with her. But I can't do so until some sort of amends have been made for the past—in my own eyes, in hers, and—I confess it—in the eyes of the world. Sigismund and I must meet, man to man—nothing else can end my trouble.
ALBERT
And how can it make the slightest difference that you two shoot off your guns in the air?
AMADEUS
One of us must out of the way, Albert!... Won't you understand at last?
ALBERT