JACQUES. Only promise you will think over your decision.
HENRIETTE. It is better to stop right now.
JACQUES. Don't send me away like this. Don't——
HENRIETTE. I might give you false hopes. I have only to tell you that I shall never consent to be the wife of a man who cannot be the severest of censors.
JACQUES. [Kneeling.] I beg you!
HENRIETTE. No, no, no, Jacques! Spare me that. [A telephone rings in the next room.] There's the 'phone——
JACQUES. Don't go!
[Henriette rises hastily and goes to door. Jacques tries for a moment to stop her.
HENRIETTE. I must go. Go away, I tell you. I'll be furious if I find you here when I come back.
JACQUES. Henriette!