Coast. There isn't a thing in this world that money can buy I won't give you.
Georgiana. There are some things money can't buy.
Coast. No, there ain't—not my money! You'll have everything a woman can hanker after in this world—the best there is, and Steve shall have it, too, for your sake.
Georgiana. I can never love you.
Coast. Listen! I'll make my wife the biggest woman in the city—I'll make her—
Georgiana. [Interrupting.] Sam, stop! [He
rises.] I can't hear any more!
[A pause—she sobs; he waits.
Coast. I won't stop, not till you say you'll marry me! If I let up to-day, I'll begin again to-morrow, and when I stop to-morrow it'll be to go ahead the day after! I've never failed yet in getting anything I've set after, and this is the biggest thing I've ever made up my mind to.
Georgiana. And this time you will lose. Because I can never love you. [He tries to interrupt.] No, let me finish. I'll tell you why I can't love you. I'll tell you, only just you, Sam, remember that. I could never love you because I love now, with every bit of love there is in me, the man who has just left this house, who has gone to fight and perhaps will never come back.