Kate. But I do object. He is rich; but, when I marry, it shall be a man, and not a money-bag.
Ray. You refuse to obey me?
Kate. In this, yes. You have ever found me an obedient child, ready and eager to obey you: but this is a matter in which the heart commands; and mine bids me obey a higher law, which not even a father has power to set aside.
Ray. Well, here’s another! The son refuses to acknowledge his father, the daughter her husband! I tell you, girl, you shall marry this man!
Kate. I will not! I love another.
Ray. And that other?—
Kate. September Gale.
Sept. True, true as steel.
SITUATION.
(Kate, R. Raymond, R. C. Sept., C. John Gale, L. C. March, L. C. Mrs. Gale, L. Enter Kitty and Grapeau, L., Kitty trying to screen him as they creep toward door, C. March attracts Mrs. G.’s attention, who seems inclined to turn around.)