GUY. A fine strong lover for you, wife of mine. A brave, grand lover, Ruth.
RUTH. Oh, you outfaced him in the quarry there. I saw the fear he had for you.
GUY. The starveling rat.
RUTH. Yes, starveling and a coward when he met you face to face, you with your strength and he an ill and starving man. Maybe it's easy for a strong man to be brave, but, in the end, he won. His starveling brain had made a plan. His——
GUY. Damn him. Do you defend him?
RUTH. No, Guy, I don't defend. I prove him dangerous. I prove that when I went, I went with reason. I prove that if he fooled me there, he fooled you here. The factory is burnt.
GUY. I am not talking of the factory just now. It's you I'm talking of. You say you prove him dangerous. You do. You say he fooled you there, me here. I am not certain that he did not fool us both at once, up there.
RUTH. Guy! But I told you.
GUY. What?
RUTH. You came in time.