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228 happiness! I love the devoted husband and father in him! And I feel it’s his baby—that we’ve made it his baby!

[Distractedly]

Nina! For God’s sake! You haven’t come to love Sam, have you? Then—I’ll go—I’ll go away again—I’ll never come back—I tried not to this time—but I had to, Nina!

[Taking him in her arms—with sudden alarm]

No, don’t go away, Ned—ever again. I don’t love Sam! I love you!

[Miserably]

But I don’t understand! Sam gets everything—and I have nothing!

You have my love!

[With a strange, self-assured smile at him]

It seems to me you’re complaining unreasonably!

You mean—I can be—your lover again?

[Simply, even matter-of-factly]

Isn’t that the nearest we can come to making everyone happy? That’s all that counts.