Run away now quickly. It would have been nice to keep you, but I've got to be good - and keep my hands off children. Immediately thereafter, Mitch comes around the corner, arriving in the young man's place. He presents her with flowers, bows chivalrously, and they go on a date to a dancing casino. I don't think I've ever tried so hard to be gay and made such a dismal mess of it.
Blanche reacts with a laugh.
To fulfill more of Blanche's romantic dreams, she wants them to pretend that they are sitting in a little bohemian artists' cafe on the Left Bank in Paris. She slowly rolls her eyes up toward him. Mitch turns from her to cool off, and there is a long, awkward silence between them. Uneasy, Mitch soon changes the subject and asks how old she is. Reminded of a past love affair when she was sixteen, Blanche reveals her discovery of love - All at once and much, much too completely.