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.