Detesting it! Why, you love this fellow!
Ellean.
Ah, you don't understand! I have simply judged Captain Ardale as we all pray to be judged. I have lived in imagination through that one week in India when he deliberately offered his life back to God to save those wretched, desperate people. In his whole career I see now nothing but that one week; those few hours bring him nearer the Saints, I believe, than fifty uneventful years of mere blamelessness would have done! And so, father, if Paula has reported anything to Captain Ardale's discredit——
Aubrey.
Paula——!
Ellean.
It must be Paula; it can't be anybody else.
Aubrey.
You—you'll please keep Paula out of the question. Finally, Ellean, understand me—I have made up my mind.
[Again going to the door.