Adene has the conscience of a child.
Vera.
[As if involuntarily, with pain.] His eyes are just like a child's eyes.
Carlyon.
[Rises, walks away, and then turns.] I will not have Adene in his study and the public in their arm chairs judging the desperate things I did when I was face to face with death!
Vera.
Yes, I can see that. But tell me what it was.
Carlyon.
You know how I stand. I have already more influence in India than any living man. And here—well, I am not free to speak of it yet; but if I accept what is offered me, my power here will be very great. If this is once known, good-bye to everything, here or there.
Vera.