Chrome:
Thea! Please! Why won't you listen to me?



Thea:
Because you're saying nothing. Whisper your sweet nothings to my mother. She will hear you. I can't. Good-bye, Mr. Chrome, whoever you are.

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Secretary:
[on finding Thea in the carriage] She can't come with us. She...


[Chrome grabs him by the throat]



Chrome:
You ever wonder what happened to the real Mynheer Chrome? Hmm?

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Thea:
It's so undignified... lying on your back with your legs spread out.

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[Chrome and Juliana are talking in the hothouse at night]



Chrome:
There will be flowers of brown and green and black.



Juliana:
Black?



Chrome:
The Larousse collection specializes in dark plants, often black. Primula Arricula. Canna Indica. Tulipfera Nigra. Anemone Atrocarrulea.



Juliana:
I would be unacceptable then in a Larousse collection.



Chrome:
Oh, I think you would be rare enough, exotic enough.



Juliana:
But my skin is white.



Chrome:
Completely white?



Juliana:
Completely.



Chrome:
No blemishes, no stains?


[Juliana shakes her head "no."]



Chrome:
But inside


[Chrome licks his fingers and begins to put out the candles, one at a time]



Chrome:
... deep inside... there is a darkness.



Juliana:
I feel there is. I can't be sure. It would need an expert touch to discover and comfirm it.



Chrome:
Perhaps if Monsieur Larousse was here he would be able to verify.



Juliana:
But in the absence of Monsieur Larousse -...



Chrome:
I am not worthy.



Juliana:
And I might not always find it convenient to wait for the arrival of Monsieur Larousse. May I move now?


[She flutters her fan, extinguishing the last candle]

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Fitzmaurice:
Don't you remember? Cousins can do things that other people can't. And we were more than children before anyone knew what we were up to.



Juliana:
Even we didn't know.

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