ALEXANDRA—No.
HYACINTH—No.
ALBERT—May I say what we have contrived instead?
ALEXANDRA—Yes.
ALBERT—We have contrived ... something more beautiful.... Love that comes
after marriage. The deeper and stronger happiness that ... that——
HYACINTH—That comes later and endures longer.
ALBERT—Extraordinary that you can always express one’s innermost thoughts
so neatly. Think of this: Katherine of Württemberg was the happiest wife
in the world. And yet hers was one of those compulsory marriages which
Napoleon—— [_Looks around_] Napole.... But happy, you see, nevertheless.