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[Breaking away from her—harshly]

Well, I don’t love him! I only married him because he needed me—and I needed children! And now you tell me I’ve got to kill my—oh, yes, I see I’ve got to, you needn’t argue any more! I love it too much to make it run that chance! And I hate it too, now, because it’s sick, it’s not my baby, it’s his!

[With terrible ironic bitterness]

And still you can dare to tell me I can’t even leave Sam!

[Very sadly and bitterly]

You just said you married him because he needed you. Don’t he need you now—more’n ever? But I can’t tell you not to leave him, not if you don’t love him. But you oughtn’t to have married him when you didn’t love him. And it’ll be your fault, what’ll happen.

[Torturedly]

What will happen?—what do you mean?—Sam will be all right—just as he was before—and it’s not my fault anyway!—it’s not my fault!

[Then thinking conscience-strickenly]

Poor Sam she’s right  it’s not his fault  it’s mine  I wanted to use him to save myself  I acted the coward again  as I did with Gordon

[Grimly]

You know what’ll happen to him if you leave him—after all I’ve told you!