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SCENE -- _A Balcony outside the Musik-Saal of the Insel Hotel, Constance._ MISS PRENDERGAST _is seated; _ CULCHARD _is leaning against the railing close by. It is about nine; the moon has risen, big and yellow, behind the mountains at the further end of the Lake; small black boats are shooting in and out of her track upon the water; the beat of the steamers' paddles is heard as they come into harbour._ CULCHARD _has just proposed._
MISS PRENDERGAST (_after a silence_). I have already felt very strongly with Ruskin, that no girl should have the cruelty to refuse a proposal -- --