It was just enough to enable me to offer my services to you, Rita, when our poor friend died.

I found myself handy and so I came.

It so happened that I was the first.

You remember, Rita?
What made it possible for everybody to get on with our poor dear Allegre was his complete, equable, and impartial contempt for all mankind.

There is nothing in that against the purest democratic principles; but that you, Rita, should elect to throw so much of your life away for the sake of a Royal adventurer, it really knocks me over.