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304 made us suffer! You’ve got to tell him! You still love me a little, don’t you, Ned? You must when you remember the happiness we’ve known in each other’s arms! You were the only happiness I’ve ever known in life!

[Struggling weakly—thinking]

She lies! there was her old lover, Gordon! he was always first! then her son, Gordon!

[With desperate rancor—thinking]

Come on, Navy! beat her Gordons for me!

[Intensely]

Oh, if I’d only gone away with you that time when you came back from Europe! How happy we would have been, dear! How our boy would have loved you—if it hadn’t been for Sam!

[Thinking—weakly]

Yes, if it hadn’t been for Sam I would have been happy! I would have been the world’s greatest neurologist! my boy would have loved me and I’d have loved him!

[With a crowning intensity to break down his last resistance]

You must tell him, Ned ! For my sake! Because I love you! Because you remember our afternoons—our mad happiness! Because you love me!