] You could save us and you won't!
GEORGIANA. I don't love Sam.
MRS. CARLEY. Don't "love"? Did Molly Packer from Toledo love the Duke of
Birmingham? and isn't she happy now?
GEORGIANA. I don't know, I have my doubts.
MRS. CARLEY. Doubts! Oh, _doubts_!
GEORGIANA. That's not the point, mother. I'm not going to marry Sam.
MRS. CARLEY. Oh, very well, then, have your way.
GEORGIANA. I will, mother.
MRS. CARLEY. [_Going to the sofa._] Don't consider my way at all.
GEORGIANA. I won't, mother, since you ask me not to.
MRS. CARLEY. But I'll tell you this, Georgiana, you're just as bad as
Steve! We must shake off both of you. Louise must get a divorce and
marry again. Look what other widows have done before her.
[_Louise goes to her mother and takes her hand._
GEORGIANA. Mother! Louise!
LOUISE. Well, why not?
MRS. CARLEY. Certainly!
GEORGIANA. [_Goes to them._] _No!_ Listen! You must stand by Steve, both
of you. You ought to do it out of affection, for, after all, whatever
you've got of friends and position and the things you value he gave you!
But never mind that! You ought to stand by him out of loyalty,--but
never mind that! You've _got_ to stand by him because if you ruin him
you'll ruin yourselves.
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