IRENE. Han var en Sydamerikaner. Høj diplomat. (ser hen for sig med et forstenet smil.) Ham fik jeg gjort helt vanvittig; gal, – uhelbredelig gal; ubønhørlig gal. – Ret løjerligt, kan du tro, – så længe det forberedtes. Kunde gerne le indvendig fort væk. – Hvis jeg havde noget indvendigt.
IRENE. He was a South American. A distinguished diplomatist. [Looks straight in front of her with a stony smile.] Him I managed to drive quite out of his mind; mad--incurably mad; inexorably mad.--It was great sport, I can tell you--while it was in the doing. I could have laughed within me all the time--if I had anything within me.