[Exit Vera. Carlyon sits again. Elizabeth, who has approached from the veranda, looks at Carlyon questioningly.

Carlyon.

Well, Elizabeth? [Not looking up, absently.

Elizabeth.

[Standing above him.] Aren't you hard upon her? She did so love her medicine! And she has hardly any of her old light-heartedness left.

Carlyon.

She has got some, and I shall have to take that away. Do you know, Elizabeth, you were light-hearted once?

Elizabeth.

But you won't make her like me?

Carlyon.