BLACKMORE
I'm sorry.
MRS. HOLROYD (after watching him for a few moments lightly wiping the sleeping man's face with a towel) I wonder you can be so careful over him.
BLACKMORE (quietly)
It's only because he's helpless.
MRS. HOLROYD
But why should you love him ever so little?
BLACKMORE
I don't—only he's helpless. Five minutes since I could have killed him.
MRS. HOLROYD