Dorriforth. Auberon hates generalizations. Nevertheless I make bold to say that we go to the theatre in the same spirit in which we read a novel, some of us to find one thing and some to find another; and according as we look for the particular thing we find it.
Auberon. That’s a profound remark.
Florentia. We go to find amusement: that, surely, is what we all go for.
Amicia. There’s such a diversity in our idea of amusement.
Auberon. Don’t you impute to people more ideas than they have?
Dorriforth. Ah, one must do that or one couldn’t talk about them. We go to be interested; to be absorbed, beguiled and to lose ourselves, to give ourselves up, in short, to a charm.
Florentia. And the charm is the strange, the extraordinary.
Amicia. Ah, speak for yourself! The charm is the recognition of what we know, what we feel.
Dorriforth. See already how you differ.
“SO!”