ALVA. Yes. What do you want to impart to me?
HUGENBERG. I've had two plans already that I let drop. What I shall tell you now has been worked out to the last possible chance. If I had money I should not confide it to you; I thought about that a long time before coming.... Will you not permit me to set forth to you my design?
ALVA. Will you kindly tell me just what you are talking about?
HUGENBERG. She cannot possibly be so indifferent to you that I must tell you that. The evidence you gave the coroner helped her more than everything the defending counsel said.
ALVA. I beg to decline the supposition.
HUGENBERG. You would say that; I understand that, of course. But all the same you were her best witness.
ALVA. You were! You said my father was about to force her to shoot herself.
HUGENBERG. He was, too. But they didn't believe me. I wasn't put on my oath.
ALVA. Where have you come from now?
HUGENBERG. From a reform-school I broke out of this morning.