LOTH
I would have to be ruthless only toward some one who would make me betray my own most ideal self.
HELEN
And surely, I wouldn't want to do that! And yet I can't rid myself of the feeling—
LOTH
What feeling, dearest?
HELEN
Perhaps it's just because I'm nothing but a silly girl. There's so little to me—Why, I don't even know what it is—to have principles! Isn't that frightful? But I just simply love you so! And you're so good, and so great, and so very wise! I'm so afraid that you might, sometime, discover—when I say something foolish, or do something—that it's all a mistake, that I'm much too silly for you … I'm really as worthless and as silly as I can be!
LOTH
What shall I say to all that? You're everything to me, just everything in the whole world. I can't say more!