Lilli:
Trying to be funny?
Will:
I was just wondering what it would take to make a princess smile.
[he touches her face and she moves away]
Lilli:
I'm not a princess.
Will:
What are you then?
Lilli:
I'm the daughter of Friedrich Hoffman.
Will:
Ah, so you're nothing more than a name.
Lilli:
What right do you have to say that? You know nothing about me.
Will:
I know enough of your kind.
Lilli:
How could you know anything about anyone, you live like an animal; you hide out like a criminal.
Will:
And what are you doing princess, is this some holiday you're taking?
Lilli:
My father will find me -
Will:
Where is this great father of yours? How come he hasn't rescued you?
Lilli:
He'll find me, I know it!
[quietly]
Will:
What if he doesn't?
[pause]
Lilli:
I don't like the way you speak to me.
Will:
How would you have me speak?
Lilli:
Like a civilized gentleman, and not some savage -
[he slams her up against a pillar with his hand at her throat]
Will:
That is a word I will not bear from the lips of any man or woman. The last time I heard that word spoken, it was by one of your so-called gentlemen, and there was nothing gentle about it. Or civilized.
Lilli:
Let go of me!
[faintly mocking]
Will:
Why?
Lilli:
Because you frighten me.
[he looks haunted and releases her]
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