"Oh, if you had been only born differently! You belong to the people who are all alike. You sit in the stalls in a row, as if you were made after the same pattern; you expect the same jokes; you take the same too much champagne; you are like the pebbles of the seashore, all rounded alike."
"Well, what would you have?"
"The actors and show folk—my folk—are all different. As for kind hearts, how can you know, with your tables spread every day, and your champagne running like water? There's no charity where there's no poverty."
"I don't pretend to any charity."
"It is a dreadful thing to be born rich. You might have been so different if you had had nothing."
"Then you wouldn't have listened to me."
"Thank you. Listening doesn't mean consenting."
"You cannot withdraw. You are promised to me."
"Only on conditions. You want me to be engaged secretly. Well, I won't. You want me to marry you secretly. Well, I won't."
"You are engaged to me."