32/39 Do you know, too, that I still find (spite of all your great wisdom, and my contemptible qualities, as you are pleased now and then to call them), do you know, I say, that I see under all this, you still love me with the same helpless passion; and can your vast foresight imagine I won't use you accordingly, for these extraordinary airs you are pleased to give yourself.' [Talk of the independence of the 'New Woman.' Who could have been more self-assertive than this eighteenth century belle ?] "MORE. O by all means, madame, 'tis as you should, and I expect it whenever it is in your power. [_Aside_] Confusion! "LADY BETTY. My lord, you have talked to me this half-hour without confessing pain. [_Pauses and affects to gape_.] Only remember it. |