"Let us talk and live nonsense for a few more weeks.

You see, I really have not known you very long, have I, and this is a very dangerous city for flirtations.

At Court one has to be so careful, and you know I am already considered far too much of a Bohemian here.

I was even given to understand, a little time ago, by a very great lady, that my position was quite precarious." "Does that--does anything matter if--" "It is not of myself alone that I am thinking.

Everything matters to one in your profession," she reminded him pointedly.
"I believe," he exclaimed, "that you think more of my profession than you do of me!" "Quite impossible," she retorted mockingly.