MADAME DE CHAMPIGNY
[earnestly]
You are a debonair man of the great world; and yet you are still American, in that you are ab-om-i-nab-ly rich.
[She laughs sweetly.]
The settlement—Such matter as that, over which a Frenchman, an Italian, an Englishman might hesitate, you laugh! Such matter as one-hundred-fifty thousand pounds—you set it aside; you laugh! You say, "Oh yes—take it!"
HORACE
[his eyes wide with surprise]
A hundred and fifty thousand pounds! Why, that's seven hundred and fifty thous—
[He pauses, then finishes decidedly.]
She couldn't use the money to better advantage.