Yes, there is but those little arrangement over the settlement paper between your advocate and Lord Hawcastle's; but you Americans—you laugh at such things. You are big, so big, like your country!
HORACE
Ah, believe me, the great world, the world of yourself, Countess, has thoroughly alienated me.
MADAME DE CHAMPIGNY
[coming close to him, looking at him admiringly]
Ah, you retain one [pg 036] quality! You are big, you are careless, you are free.
[She lays her right hand on his left arm. He takes her hand with his right hand. They stand facing each other.]
HORACE
[smiling]
Well, perhaps, in those things I am American, but in others I fancy I should be thought something else, shouldn't I?