Bernick.
Look into any man you please, and you will find at least one dark spot that must be kept out of sight.
Lona.
And you call yourselves pillars of society!
Bernick.
Society has none better.
Lona.
Then what does it matter whether such a society is supported or not? What is it that passes current here? Lies and shams—nothing else. Here are you, the first man in the town, prosperous, powerful, looked up to by every one—you, who have set the brand of crime upon an innocent man.
Bernick.
Do you think I do not feel deeply the wrong I have done him? Do you think I am not prepared to atone for it?