HELENA [making room on the couch for him to sit next to her]. You
mustn't say wicked things to me.
PARIS. Can your theories survive a test?
HELENA [beautifully]. Truth is eternal and survives all tests.
PARIS. No. Perhaps, after all, your soul is not ready for the
supremest heights.
HELENA. Do you mean to say I'm not religious? Religion teaches
the meaning of love.
PARIS. Has it taught you to love your husband?
HELENA [starting up and immediately sitting down again]. How dare
you speak to me like that?
PARIS. You see. I was right. [He goes toward the balcony.]
HELENA [stopping him]. Whatever made you think so?
PARIS. I've heard people talk of the King. You could never love a
man like that.
HELENA [beautifully]. A woman's first duty is to love her
husband.
PARIS. There is a higher right than duty.
HELENA [with conviction]. Right is right.
PARIS [with admiration]. The world has libelled you.
HELENA. Me! The Queen?
PARIS. You are as wise as you are beautiful.
HELENA [smiling coyly]. Why, you hardly know me.
PARIS. I know you! I, better than all men.
HELENA.
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