[making a deep curtsy]
Monseigneur!
VASILI
[to ETHEL]
Not you! You see, I must fly to some place where an incognito will be respected. If I stay here it will be—what you call—fuss and [pg 160] feathers and revolutionary agents. I have come to make my adieu to your guardian. Incognito or out of it, he is my very good friend—no matter if he is an egoist.
ETHEL
An egoist! That is the last thing in the world he should be called.
VASILI
Ah, so; what do you call him?
ETHEL