What reparation can I possibly make?
BARON [Passionately]
You can love me again, Vera.
BARONESS [Stamping foot]
Alexis, you are interrupting——
VERA
I fear, father, we have grown too estranged—our ideas are so opposite——
BARON
But not now, Vera, surely not now? You are no longer
[He lowers his voice and looks around]