'T was from a too intense appreciation

Of your own character: he acted you—

Ne'er for an instant did I think it real,

Nor look for any other than this end.

I hold him worlds the worse on that account;

But so it was.

Cha. [To Pol.] I love you now indeed!

[To Vic.] You never knew me!

Vic. Hardly till this moment,

When I seem learning many other things