Vera.
There are proofs enough without me! And witnesses; Selim first——
Carlyon.
[As if stung.] Be quiet! Let me think. [Pause.] To think that you should have done it! To think of the vermin I have trusted before, and none of them ever betrayed me!
Vera.
No; you betrayed them! Oh, it is their blind faith that has made you so pitilessly false!
Carlyon.
To trust you—it was like trusting myself!
Vera.