George.

[To Marie.] And that is why you love it so, because it is so foreign and strange?

Marie.

[Busy with linen.] Perhaps!

Gertrude.

No, that is not the reason----

Marie.

Well then, what is it?

Gertrude.

I'm going to tell on you. One day papa took her to the Opera, down in the city; there they saw the African----