DAISY. I'm very comfortable in Peking, thank you.
LEE TAI. [_Snapping his fingers._] You don't care that for your husband. He loves you. You despise him. Don't you wish with all your heart that you hadn't married him?
AMAH. He very silly white man. He no likee Daisy's old amah. Perhaps one day he b'long sick. Daisy cry velly much if he die?
DAISY. [_Impatiently._] Don't be such a fool.
AMAH. Perhaps one day he drink whisky soda. Oh, velly ill, velly ill. What's the matter with me? No sabe. No can stand. Doctor no sabe. Then die. Hi, hi.
DAISY. You silly old woman. Harry's not a Chinaman and he wouldn't call in a Chinese doctor.
LEE TAI. [_With a smile._] China is a very old and a highly civilized country, Daisy. When anyone is in your way, it's not very difficult to get rid of him.
DAISY. [_Scornfully._] And do you think I'd let poor Harry be murdered so that I might be free to listen to your generous proposals? You must think I'm a fool if you expect me to risk my neck for that.
LEE TAI. You don't take _any_ risk, Daisy. You know nothing.
DAISY. I thought so once. Lee Tai, you're a damned fool. Get out.
LEE TAI. Freedom is a very good thing, Daisy.
LEE TAI. Wouldn't you like to be free now? [_She looks at him sharply. She wonders if it can possibly be that he suspects her passion for George Conway. He meets her glance steadily._] One day Sen Shi Ming was sitting with his wife looking at a Tang bronze that he had just bought when he heard someone in the street crying for help. Sen Shi was a very brave man and he snatched up a revolver and ran out. Sen Shi forgot that he had cheated his brother out of a house in Hatamen Street or he would have been more prudent. Sen Shi was found by the watchman an hour later with a dagger in his heart. Who killed cock-robin?
LEE TAI. His brother knew that. They had grown up together. If I heard cries for help outside my house late in the night, I should ask myself who had a grudge against me, and I should make sure the door was bolted. But white men are very brave. White men don't know the Chinese customs. Would you be very sorry if an accident happened to your excellent husband?
LEE TAI. Why do you pretend to me, Daisy? Do you think I don't know you?