Part 53 (2/2)

You're going, then?

SYLVESTER.

Your words leave me no choice.

MARGERY.

Where are you going? to her?

SYLVESTER.

I don't know yet. I don't know if I'm welcome.

[_Playing with the packet, mechanically._

MARGERY.

That rests with you. You say, she's been no wife to you; but have you been a husband to her?

SYLVESTER.

Why do you take her part? She's injured you enough.

MARGERY.

Yes; she _has_ injured me; but now I know what it is to live without love, and to want it, I can pardon her. Can't you? [_Goes to him and gives him both her hands._] Forgive her, Captain Sylvester--freely as I do you--give her the love that you have offered me--and you will find your wife's a woman just as much as I am.

SYLVESTER.

Margery--I may call you ”Margery?”

MARGERY.

I'm ”Margery” to everybody now.

SYLVESTER.

If there were more women like you, there would be fewer men like me.

[_Exit, L._

MARGERY [_looks after him, then goes, R. front and looks again_].

He'll go back to his wife; and if she isn't happy, it's her fault.

[_Exit, R._

_Re-enter ARMSTRONG, showing out, C., LADY WARGRAVE and the COLONEL._

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