JULIE. I should like to know more about you. Will you—will you let me ask you some questions? It is not usual, perhaps, but—
ANTONIN. Certainly. Pray ask them.
JULIE. Are you fond of children?
ANTONIN. Passionately.
JULIE. Really and truly?
ANTONIN. Really and truly.
JULIE. I am quite crazy about them. For me children mean happiness. They are the one thing worth living for [wistfully]. But I think I have a higher idea of marriage than most girls. I want to have my mind satisfied as well as my heart.
ANTONIN. So do I.
JULIE. A marriage that is a mere business partnership seems to me horrible.
ANTONIN. Horrible! That’s just the word.