Dectora.How can that be?

Is it that though your eyes are full of love

Some other woman has a claim on you,

And I’ve but half?

Forgael. Oh, no!

Dectora. And if there is,

If there be half a hundred more, what matter?

I’ll never give another thought to it;

No, no, nor half a thought; but do not speak.

Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted,