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. And why not mine too?

. I always considered my friends as yours.

. [Looks at him for a moment.] So they are. [Aside.] Ah, this complaisance! I would have preferred to see them resist—struggle against me!

SCENE V

Doña Ángela, the Duchess, Edward, and Dr. Tomás.

. Duchess!

. Madam! [Salutes affectionately.]

. You are always so good to us.

. It is my duty to offer the consolations of sincere friendship in your cruel trouble. God has willed that the same misfortune should strike us all though in different ways. [Lowers her voice and points to Edward on uttering the last word.]

. But what then do you call the misfortune that has struck me? I know not.

. Well, madam, the moment for naming it has arrived. It is called poverty, and shame, and the death of Inés, or

and, [At same time.] Edward!

. Forgive me, mother. We should each and all speak out the truth to-day. You have already said: 'I will compromise with Don Lorenzo's calamity for the sake of the love I bear you and that which you bear me; but I will never compromise with his public dishonour,—never, not even for the price of your life.' My life, mother, was it not so 'twas said?

. [With energy, but sadly.] Yes. 175