He knows … he knows.
[A great exhaustion overtakes her and, almost swooning, she sinks upon a chair. A silence follows.
AUGUST
[Busying himself about her.] What is it that's come over you? Suddenly you're so….
ROSE
I don't know.—If you'd asked me earlier, long ago, maybe … to-day I can't tell you!—There wasn't nobody that loved me enough.
AUGUST
Who can tell which love is stronger—the happy or the unhappy love.
ROSE
Oh, I was strong, strong, so strong! Now I'm weak! Now it's all over with me.