Helen
[quietly]
So I told him ... when he asked me to marry him.
All
What! He asked you to marry him?
Helen
Of course! Implored me to marry him. [She adds, smiling.] So absorbed—not in mankind, but in me—that he "didn't realize what he was asking me to do."
Lucy
[utterly amazed]
And you refused him! The man who loves you honorably?