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[With a harsh laugh]

And is that what you call playing fair to Sam?

[Simply]

Sam will never know. The happiness I have given him has made him too sure of himself ever to suspect me now. And as long as we can love each other without danger to him, I feel he owes that to us for all we’ve done for him.

[With finality]

That’s the only possible solution, Ned, for all our sakes, now you’ve come back to me.

[Repulsed]

Nina! How can you be so inhuman and calculating!

[Stung—mockingly]

It was you who taught me the scientific approach, Doctor!

[Shrinking back from her—threateningly]

Then I’ll leave again! I’ll go back to Europe! I won’t endure—!

[Then in a queer, futile rage]

You think I’ll stay—to be your lover—watching Sam with my wife and my child—you think that’s what I came back to you for? You can go to hell, Nina!