TED MORRIS.
No, dear, only promised—by someone who did not know the value of what she was offering. You must let me cancel the bargain, Nell. It was a bad one to make—in every sense of the word.
NELLY MORRIS.
Perhaps. But bad bargains have to be kept when made, as well as good ones. Don't let us talk about it any more, dear. The thing's done now. It cannot be undone.
TED MORRIS.
Yes it can, Nell, and must. It makes it a little awkward, his having announced it in that ridiculous theatrical way, but when I tell him everything. When I tell him that you love dear old Jack——
NELLY MORRIS.
But you never will do that, Ted—for my sake—for all our sakes.
TED MORRIS.
You must get out of it somehow, Nell.