:05:03
''Asked to marry me? SeriousIy?''
:05:05
''It's not a matter to joke about.
:05:07
''You saw him two days ago,
and I think you Iiked him.
:05:11
''He is oIder than you,
but that is aII to the good.
:05:14
''He's a man of good character,
weII-situated and weII-bred...
:05:18
''and if you don't say no,
which I scarceIy expect you to do...
:05:22
''by the age of 20, you wiII be...
:05:25
''where others are at 40.
:05:26
''You'II rise much higher than your mother.''
:05:36
Effi, come here!
:05:49
Effi was not greatIy interested...
:05:52
in mundane possessions...
:05:54
but when she went stroIIing
with her mother...
:05:57
perusing the window dispIays
and went into the Demuth store...
:06:01
to purchase aII manner of things
for her honeymoon in ItaIy...
:06:06
her true character reveaIed itseIf.
:06:08
OnIy the most eIegant things wouId do...
:06:10
and she wouId renounce
aII idea of the second-best.
:06:14
Second-best meant nothing to her anymore.
:06:18
She knew how to do without things...
:06:21
and in forgoing things Iike that,
she seemed undemanding.
:06:25
But when she reaIIy
set her heart on something...
:06:28
it had to be quite exceptionaI...
:06:31
and in that respect, she was demanding.