Baroness--Meanwhile, I'll tell the committee of your find.
Marquis--I beg you, no. With regard to the committee, dear Baroness, I wish you'd use your influence in a matter which touches me.
Baroness--I have not much influence--
Marquis--Is that modesty, or the exordium of a refusal?
Baroness--If either, it's modesty.
Marquis--Very well, my charming friend. Don't you know that these gentlemen owe you too much to refuse you anything?
Baroness--Because they meet in my parlor?
Marquis--That, yes; but the true, great, inestimable service you render every day is to possess such superb eyes.
Baroness--It's well for you to pay attention to such things!
Marquis--Well for me, but better for these Solons whose compliments don't exceed a certain romantic intensity.