AUDR. Tell me what to do.

MICH. I’m not fit to advise you.

AUDR. What can we do?

MICH. I don’t know. We’re up a blind alley with our sin. There’s no way out of this.

AUDR. I shall defy him.

MICH. No.

AUDR. Yes. A bargain’s a bargain. I shall go back and defy him. I’ll never see him again. But then—what then? What will you do?

MICH. Don’t think of me.

AUDR. Speak to me. Say one word. Oh, it has been on the tip of my tongue so many times to tell you all, but I couldn’t bear to lose your love, so I deceived you. (He walks about perplexed. She goes to him very gently and coaxingly.) Say you aren’t sorry—say that deep down in your inmost heart you aren’t sorry for what is past!

MICH. Sorry? No. God forgive me. I’m not sorry. I can’t be sorry. I wish I could.