[Ironically] No?
LUCIA
The Scriptures say—
HELIOGABALUS
Ah? Then let us be glad they approve it, little pot-pie. It is pleasant to be virtuous—that is, more or less.
LUCIA
[Demurely after a pause] Do you want to kiss me?
HELIOGABALUS
[He begins slowly to take off his tunic. As he answers, it is over his head] I am perfectly willing. But, I warn you, I'm not going to stand any more Christian kisses. And what's more, if I'm interrupted any more by any low-comedy Palais Royal knocking on that dog-gone door just as I am on the point of—