Thank you.
Lincoln
I didn't say it!——
[Laughs.]
—But you know you do talk too much sometimes!
Mrs. Lincoln
[Angrily.]
And I'm going to say something to you now. I thought this morning that you would treat those scoundrels with the contempt they deserve when they dared to ask you to sacrifice yourself and the cause of the Union to the ambitions of some traitor behind them.
Lincoln
No! No! They're honest in what they say——