I should certainly like you no less.

Jack Straw.

I have no doubt that if I were just a penniless adventurer you’d simply dote upon me.

Ethel.

I don’t know if I’d put it quite so strongly as that.

Jack Straw.

You know, I’m afraid you’re hopelessly romantic. You’ve confessed your attachment to me, and just because I happen incautiously to have chosen an Emperor for my grandfather, you want me to go away. It’s so unreasonable.

Ethel.

But I haven’t confessed anything of the sort.

Jack Straw.