Bernick.
I know, at any rate, that she has not been anything that I required.
Lona.
Because you have never shared your life-work with her. Because you have never placed her in a free and true relation to you. Because you have allowed her to go on pining under the weight of shame you had cast upon those nearest her.
Bernick.
Yes, yes, yes; falsehood and hollowness are at the bottom of it all.
Lona.
Then why not break with all this falsehood and hollowness?
Bernick.
Now? It is too late now, Lona.