SYBIL. If Mrs. Shand—It is so cruel to her. Whom did you say she had gone to the station to meet?
JOHN. Her father and brothers.
SYBIL. It is so cruel to them. We must think no more of this. It is mad... ness.
JOHN. It’s fate. Sybil, let us declare our love openly.
SYBIL. You can’t ask that, now in the first moment that you tell me of it.
JOHN. The one thing I won’t do even for you is to live a life of underhand.
SYBIL. The... blow to her.
JOHN. Yes. But at least she has always known that I never loved her.
SYBIL. It is asking me to give... up everything, every one, for you.
JOHN. It’s too much.