HE (earnestly)
His youth is dead; and it is his youth that speaks to me.
SHE (quickly)
You mustn't believe all that ghosts tell you.
HE
Oh, but I must. For they know the folly of silence—the bitterness of cowardice.
SHE
The circumstances were—slightly—different, weren't they?
HE (stubbornly)
I don't care!