Vera.
Not with you, father.
Carlyon.
You know, Vera, a man's conscience and a woman's conscience are different things. A man has greater difficulties to face, and must risk doing greater wrongs, just as he is called upon to make greater sacrifices for his duty—things that a woman knows nothing of.
[Takes Vera to the seat l., and brings a chair near her.
Vera.
Don't say a woman, say a child! I know this, and I am ready for the bigger life. It is the lesson you have always taught me.
Carlyon.
Have you learned it?
Vera.