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Rh Why don’t you begin at the beginning and tell me all about it? I feel responsible.

[Fiercely]

You are!

[Then wearily]

And you’re not. No one is. You didn’t know. No one could know.

[In same tone]

Know what?

[Thinking with the same eagerness to believe something he hopes]

She must mean no one could know that Sam wasn’t but I might have guessed it  from his general weakness  poor unlucky devil

[Then as she remains silent—urgingly]

Tell me. I want to help you, Nina.

[Touched]

It’s too late, Ned.

[Then suddenly]

I’ve just thought—Sam said he happened to run into you. That isn’t so, is it? He went to see you and told you how worried he was about me and asked you out to see me, didn’t he?

[As nods]

Oh, I don’t mind! It’s even rather touching.

[Then mockingly]

Well, since you’re out here professionally, and my husband