"The more you take of what's my heart, the more I've left."

(triumphantly).

What think you of that?

CYRANO.

So! So!

ROXANE.

And of this? (reciting).

"Since I must suffer and, to suffer, have a heart,
If you would keep the heart that's mine, then send me yours."

CYRANO.

At first he had too much heart; now he has not enough. It would be interesting to know exactly how much heart would satisfy him.