"Am I to go back alone? That is too cruel."
"Why do you wish to go back?"
"Have you considered my business, Dora?"
"No, I have thought only of you."
"But you must think of my business. How can you expect me to give it up? Why, the 'Campbell Iron Works' are almost historic. They were founded by my great-grandfather. They are making more money under my management than ever they did before."
"If you put your historic iron works before me, you are not worthy of me."
"My mother's, and my sister's livelihoods are in the works. They look to me to protect them."
"If you put your mother, and your sisters before me, you are not worthy of me."
"They love me, Dora."
"Your mother has many investments. She is rich. Your sisters are well married. Neither of them would put you before their husbands, why should you put them before your wife and son? If they had loved you, they would not have broken up your home, and driven your wife and child away from you. You were a provider of cash, a giver of social prestige to them—no more."