MAGDA.

Really! Such magnanimity! I hardly-- Do you really forgive everything? From top to bottom? Even that you stirred up my mother against me before she ever came into the house? That you made my father--[Puts her hand to her lips.] Meglio tacere! Meglio tacere!

MARIE.

[Interrupting.] For Heaven's sake, Magda!

MAGDA.

Yes, my darling--nothing, not a word.

FRANZISKA.

She has a fine presence!

MAGDA.

And now let me look about me! Ah, everything's just the same. Not a speck of dust has moved.