“Maybe there is no such person”
“What! You have not yet met a man worthy of your regard?”
“Many worthy of regard, but none of love.”
“Then you have never been in love?”
“Never.”
“Your heart is empty?”
“You make me laugh. Is it happiness, is it unhappiness? Who can say. If it be happiness, I am glad, and if it be unhappiness, I do not care, for I do not feel it to be so.”
“Nevertheless, it is a misfortune, and you will know it to have been so on the day in which you love.”
“And if I become unhappy through love, shall I not pronounce my emptiness of heart to have been happiness.”
“I confess you would be right, but I am sure love would make you happy.”