You—love—me!
[He takes her in his arms, a silent embrace with only the bland blasé moon looking on.
Helen
It is because I love you that I didn't want you to say it—only I did. It is because I love you that I went abroad—to stay, only I couldn't! I couldn't stay away! [She holds his face in her hands.] Oh, do you know how I love you? No!... you're only a man!
Ernest
[kissing her rapturously]
Every day there in the laboratory, when you in your apron—that dear apron which I stole from your locker when you left me—when you asked for orders—did you know that I wanted to say: "Love me"! Every day when you took up your work, did you never guess that I wanted to take you up in my arms?
Helen
[smiling up into his face]
Why didn't you?