[_Looking._] No.
GEORGIANA. [_Almost whispers._] It means--?
STEVEN. [_Striving to hide his own emotion and to encourage her._] The
news is too meagre to be true.
MRS. CARLEY. [_In hall Left._] Georgiana! We must go.
GEORGIANA. [_Starts. To_ STEVEN.] _Don't_ let mother come in, please.
LOUISE. [_Just outside the door._] Georgiana, we must go.
GEORGIANA. [_To_ STEVEN.] Say I'm coming.
STEVEN. I can't leave you alone. [_Going to the door._] Georgy's coming.
LOUISE. [_Outside._] Good! Hurry!
STEVEN. [_Coming back to her._] But I can't leave you.
GEORGIANA. You must. And anyway I want you to. I want to be alone.
[STEVEN _hesitates. He comes and takes her hand and is about to kiss
her, but something keeps him back; he presses her hand and she gives a
grateful look. She crosses to the dressing table and sits before it,
dazed. Slowly she takes the flowers from her hair, the pearls from her
neck. The front door slams, she lifts her head, and leaning her arm
toward_ DICK'S _picture, draws it toward her, gazing at it. Then,
crying, "Dick, Dick," she bursts into tears and drops her head upon her
arms outstretched on the table as_
THE CURTAIN FALLS
ACT IV
_Seven weeks later.
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