Rebecca.
Not for this?
Rosmer.
I knew well enough that sooner or later our beautiful, pure friendship might be misinterpreted and soiled. Not by Kroll—I could never have believed such a thing of him—but by all those other people with the coarse souls and the ignoble eyes. Oh yes—I had reason enough for keeping our alliance so jealously concealed. It was a dangerous secret.
Rebecca.
Oh, why should we care what all those people think! We know in our own hearts that we are blameless.
Rosmer.
Blameless? I? Yes, I thought so—till to-day. But now—now, Rebecca——?
Rebecca.
Well, what now?