"But she sounds exactly like me!"
This made him laugh:
"I don't believe you know in the least what you are like," he said.
MARGOT: "You mean I have no idea how plain I am? But what an odd man you are! If I don't know what I'm like, I am sure you can't! How do you know that I am not just the sort of adventuress you dread most? I might marry your son and, so far from widening his interests, as you suggest, keep him busy with his coins while I went about everywhere, enjoying myself and spending all your money. In spite of what you say, some man might fall in love with me, you know! Some delightful, clever man. And then Lucien's happiness would be over."
BARON HIRSCH: "I do not believe you would ever cheat your husband."
MARGOT: "You never can tell! Would Lady Katie Lambton many for money?"
BARON HIRSCH: "To be perfectly honest with you, I don't think she would."
MARGOT: "There you are! I know heaps of girls who wouldn't; anyhow, I never would!"
BARON HIRSCH: "You are in love with some one else, perhaps, are you?"
It so happened that in the winter I had fallen in love with a man out hunting and was counting the hours till I could meet him again, so the question annoyed me; I thought it vulgar and said, with some dignity: