Kate. Please ask Dr. Endicott to come here.

Jen. Yes'm. (Aside.) They two would make another nice equal-rights couple. (Exit, C.)

Kate. What shall I say to him? Oh! if they could see me tremble, they would no longer call me "strong-minded."

(Enter Dr. Endicott, C.)

Dr. E. You sent for me, Kate? At last we meet alone!

Kate. Yes, I sent for you to say, forgive me!

Dr. E. Forgive you! For refusing me an explanation, do you mean?

Kate. For ever having doubted you. Oh! how can I say how bitterly I have wronged you?

Dr. E. Wronged me? and how? Do not fear: tell me all. Whatever it may be, it is forgiven.

Kate. I doubted you. It seems impossible now that I could have done so, but I did; circumstances caused me to lay the wrong-doing of another at your door.