Ernest. For your sake?
Teodora. It would be such a horrible scandal.
Ernest. That is possible.
Teodora. You can say it so coolly, and not endeavour to avoid it, not even when it is I who implore you!
Ernest. I cannot avoid it, but I can chastise it: so I think and say, and this is my business. Others will look for the insult, I for the punishment.
Teodora. [Coming nearer and speaking softly, as if afraid of her own voice.] And Julian?
Ernest. Well?
Teodora. If he were to know about it?
Ernest. He will know about it.
Teodora. What will he say?