If you are really in earnest about this—about all you say—then there must indeed be a change in you.

Rita.

Yes, there is, Alfred—and for that I have you to thank. You have made an empty place within me; and I must try to fill it up with something—with something that is a little like love.

Allmers.

[Stands for a moment lost in thought; then looks at her.] The truth is, we have not done much for the poor people down there.

Rita.

We have done nothing for them.

Allmers.

Scarcely even thought of them.

Rita.