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[Playfully]

Oh, you needn’t go this minute! Wait and say good-bye to Sam. He’d be terribly hurt if you didn’t.

[Then seriously]

And will you promise to stay away two years—even if I call you back before then—and work this time, really work?

I’ll try, Nina!

And then—surely come back to me!

[Smiling]

Surely—again!

Then good-bye, dear!

[She kisses him]

Again!

[He smiles and she smiles and they hiss again. appears in the doorway at rear and stands for a moment in a passion of jealousy and rage and grief, watching them]

[Thinking with a strange tortured shame]

I mustn’t see her! pretend I didn’t see her! mustn’t never let her know I saw her!

[He vanishes as silently as he had come]