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 wait! Leave the steamship here a moment. I'll have to show you how it works The automobile is quite simple, but the ship has a rather complicated mechanism I'll explain it to you before I go home. ['' puts the steamship under the down-stage end of the counter at right, then exits through the archway with the remaining packages. turns to .''] Forgive me My god-son, you know.

—[Who has been weeping silently.] Peter, if you only knew how sorry I am.

—I'm afraid I made it harder for you but I have a headache and everything came at once I'm sorry  but you were a bit cruel.

—Kill me, Peter.

—But you were honest with me you couldn't be anything else. And yet I think it would have been less painful to me if you had simply betrayed me.

—I can't betray you, Peter. I respect you too much. [Weeping.] Don't ask me to do that.

—You want to become another man's wife. How can I prevent you? Go, if you must. He is surely a better man than

—No, no!

—But you are leaving me for him.

—You are a much better man and yet I can't explain [**in this page, there are some hanging em dashes.. but I felt that they are to be present as this is a play.. Please let me know about whether I did right thing or not.]