I am not talking to you now, Andrew.
FORESTER.
You are here with your father's consent, Mr. Stein? Moreover—sir, and if your father had the power to take from me my position and my honor—the fact that I have an irreproachable child, that is something he cannot take from me. And any one else—hey? Young man, on this point I am touchy. Do you understand?
SOPHY.
But will you fall out even with your last friend?
FORESTER.
Mary's reputation is at stake. If he is a friend, he knows without my telling him what he has to do.
ROBERT.
I know what I have to do; but you do not. Otherwise you would not risk your children's happiness for a whim—for—