ALICE. Then there was no truth in the rest either?
CAPTAIN. No.
ALICE. [In despair] Oh, what have I done!
CAPTAIN. There is help for everything.
ALICE. No, this is beyond helping!
CAPTAIN. Nothing is beyond helping, if you only wipe it out and pass on.
ALICE. But the telegram—the telegram!
CAPTAIN. Which telegram?
ALICE. [On her knees beside the CAPTAIN] Are we then cast out? Must this happen? I have sprung a mine under myself, under us. Why did you have to tell untruths? And why should that man come here to tempt me? We are lost! Your magnanimity might have helped everything, forgiven everything!
CAPTAIN. What is it that cannot be forgiven? What is it that I have not already forgiven you?