Confound it! Are your reproofs then to awaken together with my conscience? I understand you; I know on whom you expend your pity. But I will do justice to her and to myself. Quite right, do not have any pity on me! Curse me in your heart; but--curse yourself also!
NORTON.
Myself also?
MELLEFONT.
Yes, because you serve a miserable wretch, whom earth ought not to bear, and because you have made yourself a partaker in his crimes.
NORTON.
I made myself a partaker in your crimes? In what way?
MELLEFONT.
By keeping silent about them.