GEORGIANA. And this time you _will_ lose. Because I can never love you.
[_He tries to interrupt._] No, let me finish. I'll tell you why I can't
love you. I'll tell you, only just you, Sam, remember that. I could
never love you because I love now, with every bit of love there is in
me, the man who has just left this house, who has gone to fight and
perhaps will never come back.
COAST. Has he asked you to be his wife?
GEORGIANA. I love him all the same!
COAST. And I love you the same way you love him--ain't you a little
sorry for me?
GEORGIANA. Yes--
COAST. That'll do to go on with--
GEORGIANA. [_Laughs hysterically._] Oh--Sam, can't I make you
understand?
COAST. No, nor make me give up. I'm coming to see you again to-morrow;
when will you be in?
GEORGIANA. Not at all.
[_She moves about the room._
COAST. What time in the afternoon?
GEORGIANA. I shall be out all afternoon.
COAST. I'll call at five.
GEORGIANA. Very well! You'll find Louise and mother.
COAST. _Coleman_ thinks you'll have me!
GEORGIANA. He couldn't! Why should he?
COAST. He congratulated me, when he was here just now!
GEORGIANA.
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