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[In a cold, business tone.] I cannot regard my life as wasted, yet.

And what about mine?

There you have yourself to blame, Ella.

[With a start.] And you can say that?

You could quite well have been happy without me.

Do you believe that?

If you had made up your mind to.

[Bitterly.] Oh yes, I know well enough there was some one else ready to marry me.

But you rejected him.

Yes, I did.

Time after time you rejected him. Year after year