Knox
(Hurt, showing that he will stay.) I am not a coward.
Chalmers
(In a stifled voice that grows stronger.) Yes; wait I have a word for you.
(He pauses a moment, and when he speaks again his voice is all right.)
(Witheringly.) A nice specimen of a reformer, I must say. You, who babbled yesterday about theft. The most high, righteous and noble Ali Baba, who has come into the den of thieves and who is also a thief.
(Mimicking Margaret.) "Ah, you flame, you flame!"
(In his natural voice.) I should call you; you thief, you thief, you wife-stealer, you.
Margaret
(Coolly.) I should scarcely call it theft.