(Helena offers to find the charm)
Prime Minister: My dear, it will be like looking for a needle - no, something smaller than a needle - in a haystack, when you don't even know if you're in the right field! I'm sorry, but all in all, it is completely, utterly, unarguably, quintessentually hopeless.
(The flower held by the sleeping Queen suddenly blooms)
Helena: What does that mean?
Prime Minister: It means... that it's maybe not quintessentually hopeless.
Prime Minister: My dear, it will be like looking for a needle - no, something smaller than a needle - in a haystack, when you don't even know if you're in the right field! I'm sorry, but all in all, it is completely, utterly, unarguably, quintessentually hopeless.
(The flower held by the sleeping Queen suddenly blooms)
Helena: What does that mean?
Prime Minister: It means... that it's maybe not quintessentually hopeless.
(Helena offers to find the charm)
Prime Minister : My dear, it will be like looking for a needle - no, something smaller than a needle - in a haystack, when you don't even know if you're in the right field! I'm sorry, but all in all, it is completely, utterly, unarguably, quintessentually hopeless.
(The flower held by the sleeping Queen suddenly blooms)
Helena : What does that mean?
Prime Minister : It means... that it's maybe not quintessentually hopeless.
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