Paula.
Ah! ah! Ha, ha! It's all very well, but you don't know what it cost me to make such an offer. I do so want to be married.
Aubrey.
But you never imagined——?
Paula.
Perhaps not. And yet I did think of what I'd do at the end of our acquaintance if you had preferred to behave like the rest.
[Taking a flower from her bodice.
Aubrey.
Hush!
Paula.