JEAN. Why should one respect them?

KRISTIN. Yes, you can say that, you are so smart. But I don't want
to serve people who behave so. It reflects on oneself, I think.

JEAN. Yes, but it's a comfort that they're not a bit better than
we.

KRISTIN. No, I don't, think so, for if they are not better there's
no use in our trying to better ourselves in this world. And to
think of the Count! Think of him who has had so much sorrow all his
days? No, I don't want to stay in this house any longer! And to
think of it being with such as you! If it had been the Lieutenant--

JEAN. What's that?

KRISTIN. Yes! He was good enough, to be sure, but there's a
difference between people just the same. No, this I can never
forget. Miss Julie who was always so proud and indifferent to men!
One never would believe that she would give herself--and to one
like you! She who was ready to have Diana shot because she would
run after the gatekeeper's mongrels. Yes, I say it--and here I
won't stay any longer and on the twenty-fourth of October I go my
way.

JEAN. And then?

KRISTIN. Well, as we've come to talk about it, it's high time you
looked around for something else, since we're going to get married.