RUTH. To-night's the first since yesterday.
MARTIN. Why yesterday?
RUTH. You sent a message by my mother. She gave it to me yesterday.
MARTIN. I'd forgotten that. So much has happened since.
RUTH. Then you should trust me all the more. I'm here in spite of all. I'm risking everything to come to tell you what you do is wrong, utterly, hopelessly wrong.
MARTIN. What do you risk?
RUTH. I risk my plan. Let Guy find out I meet you, and where's my chance of influencing him? Where's my reward for sending you away? I risk my life, my hope, my all.
MARTIN (sceptically). It sounds a lot.
RUTH. It is a lot.
MARTIN. Well, I too take risks to-night.