"Scandal, then, is symbolized by the interrogation point?"
"Yes. Whoever heard of scandal coming to a full stop, that is to say, a period."
"I learn something every minute. A hundred years ago you would have been a cousin to Mademoiselle de Necker."
"Or Madame de Staël."
"Oh, if you are married—"
"I shall have ceased to interest you?"
"On the contrary. Only, marriage would account for the bitterness of your tone. What does the Blue Domino represent?"
"The needle of the compass." She stretched a sleeve out toward me and I observed for the first time the miniature compasses woven in the cloth. Surely, one does not rent a costume like this.
"I understand now why you attracted me. Whither will you guide me?'"—sentimentally.
"Through dark channels and stormy seas, over tropic waters, 'into the haven under the hill.'"