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Since you call it a duty I may remind you that it's one I have never asked any one else to perform. Isabel. As a duty! But as a pleasure? Oberville. Do you really want to know? Isabel. Oh, I don't require and charge you. Oberville. You dislike as much as ever having the i's dotted? Isabel. With a handwriting I know as well as yours! Accomplished woman! I never was more surprised. Isabel.
Oberville. Isabel! Isabel. But now Oberville. Ah, give me a moment before you unsay it! Isabel. I don't mean to unsay it. There's no use in repealing an obsolete law. That's the pity of it! You say you lost me ten years ago. Oberville. Now? Isabel. Only this morning you were my supreme court of justice; there was no appeal from your verdict.
I'll tell you what he is the power behind the throne, the black Pope, the King-maker and all the rest of it. Don't you read the papers? Of course I'll never get on if you won't interest yourself in politics. And to think you might have married that man! Isabel. And got you your secretaryship! Warland. Oberville has them all in the hollow of his hand. Isabel. Well, you'll see him at five o'clock.
Lewis Darley to-night, by Fall River boat. John Oberville, from Boston at five P.M. Why, I didn't know John Oberville? John Oberville? Here? To-day at five o'clock? Let me see let me look at the list. Are you sure you're not mistaken? Why, she never said a word! Why the deuce didn't you tell me? Isabel. I didn't know. Warland. Oberville Oberville ! Isabel. Why, what difference does it make?
On your letting everything go but the right. Oberville. Oh, hang the right! What is truth? We had the right to be happy! I used to think so sometimes. Oberville. Did you? Triple fool that I was! Isabel. But you showed me Oberville. Why, good God, we belonged to each other and I let you go! It's fabulous.
Until you came into the room just now my recollection of you was so vivid; you were a living whole in my thoughts. Now I am engaged in gathering up the fragments in laboriously reconstructing you.... Oberville. I have changed so much, then? Isabel. No, I don't believe that you've changed. It's only that I see you differently.
And after all I haven't filled it. I felt that the moment I saw you. Isabel. It would be odious if you were eloquent. Oberville. What do you mean? Isabel. That's a question you never used to ask me. Oberville. Be merciful. Remember how little practise I've had lately. Isabel. In what? Oberville. Never mind! Isabel. Oh, don't say that! I've lived on it! Oberville. On my letting you go? Isabel.
Success on some men looks like a borrowed coat; it sits on you as though it had been made to order. I see all this; I know it; but I don't feel it. I don't feel anything... anywhere... I'm numb. Then, to put the most merciful interpretation upon your epigrams, your feeling for me was made out of poorer stuff than mine for you. Isabel. Perhaps it has had harder wear. Oberville.
I've fought for things since that weren't worth a crooked sixpence; fought as well as other men. And you you I lost you because I couldn't face a scene! Hang it, suppose there'd been a dozen scenes I might have survived them. Men have been known to. They're not necessarily fatal. Isabel. A scene? Oberville. It's a form of fear that women don't understand. How you must have despised me! Isabel.
Be sure you let me know. Footman. Yes, m'm. Ah! If I must meet one of them... Thanks. I'll take tea first. It's not that I've changed, of course, but only that I happened to have my back to the light. Isn't that what you are going to say? Oberville. Mrs. Warland! Isabel. So you really have become a great man! They always remember people's names. Oberville.
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