JACQUES. I'd like to see the man who has the audacity to criticise you to your face——
HENRIETTE. That is enough! I trust you are aware that you are not the person fit to exercise this influence over me?
JACQUES. How could I? Everything about you pleases me. It can never be otherwise.
HENRIETTE. How interesting! That's the very reason I rejected your proposal. I sha'n't marry until I am certain that I shall not be continually pestered with compliments and flattery and submission. The man who marries me shall make it his business to remind me of my shortcomings, to correct all my mistakes. He must give me the assurance that I am continually bettering myself.
JACQUES. And this—husband—have you found him already?
HENRIETTE. What—? Oh, who knows?
JACQUES. Perhaps it's—Albert?
HENRIETTE. Perhaps it is—what of it?
JACQUES. Really!
HENRIETTE. You want me to speak frankly?