Hilda
(Not heeding him)
This part gave me new strength when I thought of Wallace. (Reading with eloquence.) “War will stop when young men put Internationalism above Nationality, the law of God above the dictates of statesmen, the law of love above the law of hate, the law of self-sacrifice above the law of profit. There must be no boundaries in man’s thought. Let the young men of the world once throw down their arms, let them once refuse to point their guns at human hearts, and all the boundaries of the world will melt away and peace will find a resting-place in the hearts of men!”
White
(Taking it from her)
And I made you believe it! What silly prophets we radicals were. (He tears it up.) Mere scraps of paper, dear; scraps of paper, now.
Hilda
But it was the truth; it still is the truth.
White
Hilda, there’s something I want to talk over very very seriously with you. I’ve been putting it off.