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COAST. Oh, no! [_Rises._] See you later! I'll go and take a squint at
auntie.
[_He goes out Right._
GEORGIANA. Steve, you look troubled--what's gone wrong?
[_She goes to_ STEVEN _on the sofa and sits beside him._
STEVEN. _I_ have!
GEORGIANA. How do you mean? You and Louise haven't quarrelled?
STEVEN. If it was only that!
GEORGIANA. What then?
STEVEN. I've gone wrong, I tell you, all wrong.
GEORGIANA. How? In what way, Steve?
STEVEN. Your money's lost, it's all lost.
[GEORGIANA _rises. A pause._
GEORGIANA. How do you mean?
STEVEN. And that isn't the worst of it, either. I've broken my word to
you! I know I've killed your faith in me. I've lost faith in myself.
GEORGIANA. [_Still standing, very strong._] Steve!
STEVEN. I've speculated!
GEORGIANA. _No_, Steve!
STEVEN. [_Rises and goes to the mantel._] Yes, I've been speculating
since the very day I said I wouldn't. I won a lot at first, and of
course I thought I'd get all back; and then, of course, what I did get
back was my old cursed luck!
GEORGIANA. Oh, Steve! And I believed in you so thoroughly, I never had a
doubt!
STEVEN.
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