Carlyon.
What use can I possibly make of you?
Elizabeth.
[Continuing.] I have courage enough. When you were vexed with me yesterday, I went and walked in the cage there, among the eagles!
Carlyon.
To punish yourself? [Grimly.] Well, I suppose they were asleep!
Elizabeth.
I woke them! Oh, you can't trust her like me; and I will do anything, anything!
Carlyon.
Come, come, Elizabeth! [Lifts her up.] That letter must come from Vera, and from no one else. [A ring is heard at the front door.] And I am not anxious. It would want a miracle to unseat me now; and I don't suppose my fortune intends to desert me all of a sudden.