Agnes. Why, Richard, you have acted like a madman!
Dick. Haven't I? Perhaps the word "Fool" would be better. How easily I might have cleared myself. How—Oh, well! I'm not the first man who has been wrecked on the reefs of "Might have been."
Agnes. But this man's motive? Why did he act thus?
Dick. Because he loved you. I was in the way.
Agnes. Loved me? Then, through that love I can save you.
Dick. Perhaps you can, but you shall not. I'll take my chances with the law.
Agnes. I shall return with you.
Dick. No: you must stay here in the charge of a friend, the only man I can trust,—Tom Carew.
Agnes. He your friend? Why, he betrayed you!