But why now—now that circumstances are altered between us? why, on earth, do you play these hazardous tricks now?
Duchess.
I was determined to meet, to know, the girl with whom you are about to ranger yourself, Harry.
Quex.
Even that could have been arrived at in some safer way.
Duchess.
Ah, but you fail to see; it was the daring of this proceeding that attracted me—the romance of it!
Quex.
[Raising his hands.] Romance! still!
Duchess.