JULIET.I admit
That she had beauty, savoir-faire, and wit,
But she was wicked, too, reckless and haughty——
HELEN. I can't pretend that I was never naughty.
JULIET. Naughty, perhaps; but you could never trip so
Continually as Mr. Green's Calypso.
HELEN. I do believe you think I wouldn't dare
Calypso's deeds. I've done them all—so there!
JULIET. Well, you shall have the truth. I'll make a clean
Breast of it. Who, you ask, is Galahad Green?
I know him!
HELEN.Juliet! And he dares affirm
That I was not.... The lily-livered worm!
JULIET. But if he writes a letter to the Press
Declaring that he never saw you——
HELEN.Yes,
And makes me look a fool. What can I do
When every one I meet says 'Is it you....
That wicked gorgeous creature, that wild thing
Ecstatic and unmoral as the Spring...?'
Of course I owned it.
JULIET.Helen—I can still
Save you. I'll make him write——
HELEN.No, no!