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RhACT III. capable of anything infamous or base. I can't believe it of him—I can't.

HESTER [Outside.] Let me go! Let me go!

[Enter HESTER in terror, and rushes over to GERALD and flings herself in his arms.]

HESTER Oh! save me save me from him!

GERALD From whom?

HESTER He has insulted me! Horribly insulted me! Save me!

GERALD Who? Who has dared??

[LORD ILLINGWORTH enters at back of stage. HESTER breaks from GERALD'S arms and points to him.]

GERALD [He is quite beside himself with rage and indignation] Lord Illingworth, you have insulted the purest thing on God's earth, a thing as 144