Gioconda.
Stop! Stop! You can't go yet. You haven't told me
Where I can find the Twentieth Century.
Hilda (leading her front, and pointing to the audience).
Then, Behold its ladies and its gentlemen.
Gioconda.
What lovely people!... All the same, you know,
They're not as I have pictured them.
Hilda.
How so?
Gioconda.