Rheinhardt.

That is not my affair.

[Exit Carlyon, with a sort of stern, humorous defiance, l.]

So it was an extortion, eh? A compulsion?

Vera.

Yes.

Rheinhardt.

And now you are sorry for what you have done? eh? and you pray forgiveness, and you will never do it again?

Vera.

No, I had to. I would always do the same.