Olivia:
You must read your own thoughts and take counsel.
Cadwell: Ought I to stay, madam, and expose myself to the greatest peril I have run in my life?
Olivia: This enigma is very difficult to solve. But I do not see what peril you run in remaining here.
Cadwell: Ah, madam, how badly my eyes serve me! That my sighs are so badly explained. What? All my actions have not made themselves understood?
Olivia: I have only noticed in you that you are prodigiously at ease with the whole world.
Cadwell: Ah, madam! If I haven't kept honest appearances for the others, much different are the ones I've had for you. You owe me a complete account of them. I have done it only to better hide my love.
Olivia:
Ah, Cadwell, are you thinking carefully of what you are saying to me?
Cadwell:
Yes, madam, I have thought of it. I know all that I risk. I know that
I lose Laura forever if you abuse the sincere declaration I am making
to you. But I know that I cannot live and hide my feelings for you.
Olivia:
I've seen too much of you to believe you are sincere.
Cadwell: Eh! What do my feelings say to you, madam, who cannot be convinced by the strongest passion that ever was experienced?