JORGHEN. [Rises and helps her to her feet] What is it, girl?—Tell me! [in a lower voice] A child?

AGDA. He had given me his promise.

JORGHEN. [Genuinely moved] Poor woman!

AGDA watches him closely.

JORGHEN. Misery, always misery, wherever love gets in its work!

AGDA. And you don't despise me?

JORGHEN. I pity you, as I pity all of us.

AGDA. Can you see now that good exists?

JORGHEN. Where?

AGDA. Within yourself.