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180 stupid but I’ve got a guilty conscience! I’m, beginning to think we’ve wronged the very one we were trying to help!

You were trying to help me, too, Ned!

[Stammering]

Well—all right—let’s say that part of it was all right then. But it’s got to stop! It can’t go on!

[Implacably]

Only your love can make me happy now ! Sam must give me a divorce so I can marry you.

[Thinking suspiciously]

Look out! there it is! marry! own me! ruin my career!

[Scornfully]

Marry? Do you think I’m a fool? Get that out of your head quick! I wouldn’t marry anyone—no matter what!

[As she continues to look at him with unmoved determination—pleadingly]

Be sensible, for God’s sake! We’re absolutely unsuited to each other! I don’t admire your character! I don’t respect you! I know too much about your past!

[Then indignantly]

And how about Sam? Divorce him? Have you forgotten all his mother told you? Do you mean to say you’d deliber-