RODOLPHE:
Not so much so as yet.
ZEPHERINA:
That will come. But let's see what can be made of you.
RODOLPHE:
Nothing.
ZEPHERINA: What! You cling to minor roles? Would you like to be a guard at the back of the stage?
RODOLPHE:
No, Miss.
ZEPHERINA:
Perhaps you would simply play the bear in The Hunters and the
Milkmaid.
RODOLPHE:
Miss—
ZEPHERINA:
One of my mother's friends has that part; he won't let you have it.
RODOLPHE: Miss. I don't wish to play a thing. Not to play anything at all. Do you understand?
ZEPHERINA:
Not possible! What would you do then?