JORGHEN. Oh, it was that he saw, then!
AGDA. Tell me, secretary, are you really as hard as people say?
JORGHEN. I am not hard to anybody, child, but the world has been hard to me ever since I was born.
AGDA. Why don't you always speak like that?
JORGHEN However, the Prince is enamoured, bewitched.
AGDA. Poor fellow!—Tell me, secretary, is the Prince quite right?
JORGHEN. You and your questions are very amusing. Let me ask you one now. Hm! Do you think a woman could possibly—hm!—love me?
AGDA. No, I don't. [JORGHEN looks offended] Not unless you try to be good.
JORGHEN. How the devil is that to be done?
AGDA. Shame! Shame!