HETTY [passionately]. I could choke you for robbing me of John.
HARRIET [retreating]. Don't muss me!
HETTY. You don't know how you have made me suffer.
HARRIET [beginning to feel the strength of HETTY'S emotion surge through her and trying to conquer it]. It is not my business to have heartaches.
HETTY. You're bloodless. Nothing but sham—sham—while I——
HARRIET [emotionally]. Be quiet! I can't let her see that I have been fighting with my inner self.
HETTY. And now after all my suffering you say it has cost you more than it has cost me to be married to Charles. But it's the pain here in my heart—I've paid the price—I've paid——Charles is not your husband!
HARRIET [trying to conquer emotion]. He is.
HETTY [follows HARRIET]. He isn't.
HARRIET [weakly]. He is.