Alma. (to whom Sir Humphrey hands Tom’s sheet; reads)—“Tom, I love another more than I love you. (pause) Isn’t it best that we should say good-bye? I have no right to tell you I will never see you, for the fault is mine; but if I do, it will only be painful, and I leave it to your magnanimity to go away from me for ever."
Sir H. I have done. (goes up and turns his back to them, deeply moved; pause)
Tom. And have we lost six years of this short life?
Alma. (crosses to Tom) Not lost! if we have learnt to trust appearance less, and one another more.
Tom. Is it you, Alma? Time and grief have made us almost strangers.
Alma. But time and happiness shall make us friends.
Re-enter Susan, L.C. Tom crosses to R.
Susan. Dr. and Mrs. Dozey.
Enter Dr. and Mrs. Dozey, L.C. Exit Susan, L.C.