MIZZIE
If you only knew how sympathetically you affect me....
LOLO
But I don't want to appear better than I am. And who knows what I might....
MIZZIE
What might you?
LOLO
Well, this is the truth of it. I have gone clear off my head about Wasner. Which I hope won't make you think the worse of me. In all these eighteen years I have had nothing to blame myself with, as far as your dear papa is concerned. But you can't wonder if my feelings began to cool off a little as the years passed along. And rather than to make your dear papa—oh, no, no, Countess ... I owe him too much gratitude for that.... Lord!
MIZZIE
What is it?