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Quote #10
She knew that Emil was fond of Marie, but it had never occurred to her that Emil's feeling might be different from her own. She wondered at herself now, but she had never thought of danger in that direction. […] Emil was a good boy, and only bad boys ran after married women. (5.1.30)
Alexandra's "impervious calm" just might prove to be too naïve for the real world. After Emil's death and the revelation of his affair with Marie, Alexandra finally has to confront the dark side of those youthful, human impulses she never seems to have understood, or even want to understand.