Lords and Lovers, and Other Dramas

by Olive Tilford Dargan

Adr. [In horror] Karitz! My poor people! I must go there at once.

Kore. There? It is only because you are here that Lonz will not be led into it. [Ironically] Since you can't be everywhere, hadn't we better devise some other means for the protection of the people?

Adr. O, it is horrible!

Kore. More horrible than you dream. A good man can not know how bad the world is, for he can never get away from himself.

[Re-enter Manlief]

Manl. Come, Korelenko. We shall be too late.

Adr. He is not going.

Manl. No? I'll stiffen his heart. You don't know, do you, that your little Vera has been taken to Petrizoff?

Kore. [Stares in amazement, and clutches Adrian] Is this a lie?

Adr. She has been arrested.