I know it! I know it! I'm rotten all through, Georgy. [_Bursting
into tears._] I'm not worth being forgiven--[_He falls on his knees, in
a paroxysm of sobs and tears._] I'm _rotten_! Oh--I'm rotten--
[_He sobs uncontrollably._
[GEORGIANA _watches him a little while in silence. Then she goes to him
and puts her hand on his shoulder._
GEORGIANA. Steve!
STEVEN. [_Sobbing._] Yes!
GEORGIANA. I forgive you!
STEVEN. No! No!
GEORGIANA. And I'll trust you again if I have a chance.
STEVEN. [_Looking up._] Georgy, what do you mean?
[_Beginning to control his sobs._
GEORGIANA. I mean, though it's been a pretty big blow, my faith in you
isn't altogether gone yet.
STEVEN. Oh, I can't bear it! I can't bear it! But you don't mean it! No,
you can't mean it! How could you? Forgive me? Trust me again? No, no!
You couldn't--it's all over! I've thrown away my own money first, then
my wife's and her mother's--that ought to have been enough,--but I had
to go and break my word of honor to you, and lose every penny of yours!
There's no excuse for me, nor reason to forgive.
GEORGIANA. [_After a moment, very quietly, with her eyes filling.
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