[Defiantly] The change is for the better, Cæsar!
HELIOGABALUS
Morally, yes. Spiritually, yes. But—er, socially, so to speak,—[a pause]—hardly. [He climbs wearily into bed] Almost I am persuaded—
LUCIA
[Sniffling] You are longing for those awful women. You want them back.
HELIOGABALUS
[Trying to convince himself of his own earnestness] No, no. Really not, I assure you. I feel like—like a man who has come out of a lion's cage into a—
LUCIA
Into a what?
HELIOGABALUS