ALICE. I love revenge as a form of justice, and I am yearning to see evil get its punishment.
CURT. You still remain at that point?
ALICE. There I shall always remain, and the day I forgave or loved an enemy I should be a hypocrite.
CURT. It may be a duty not to say everything, Alice, not to see everything. It is called forbearance, and all of us need it.
ALICE. Not I! My life lies clear and open, and I have always played my cards straight.
CURT. That is saying a good deal.
ALICE. No, it is not saying enough. Because what I have suffered innocently for the sake of this man, whom I never loved——
CURT. Why did you marry?
ALICE. Who can tell? Because he took me, seduced me! I don't know. And then I was longing to get up on the heights——
CURT. And deserted your art?