HELEN
There was some one—I want you to know—whom I … because … because among wicked people he seemed the least wicked. Oh, it is so different now. [Weeping against LOTH'S neck: stormily.] Ah, if I only didn't have to leave you at all any more! Oh, if I could only go away with you right here on the spot!
LOTH
I suppose you have a very unhappy time in the house here?
HELEN
Oh, dear!—It's just frightful—the things that happen here. It's a life like—that … like that of the beasts of the field—Oh, I would have died without you. I shudder to think of it!
LOTH
I believe it would calm you, dearest, if you would tell me everything quite openly.
HELEN
Yes, to be sure. But I don't think I can bear to. Not now, at least, not yet. And I'm really afraid to.