Forgive me, forgive me.

Helen

It was all my fault.

Ernest

No, I was a brute. I'm not worthy of you.

Helen

[covering his lips with her hand]

Sssh—I can't stand it—I was perfectly horrid to you. And you were doing it all for my sake. [Laughing and crying.] You dear old thing—I knew it all the time.

[They seem about to embrace.

Judge