MARY.
"I have so much to tell you. Sometime during the evening or the night come to the Dell by the spring under the willows. There I shall wait for you. Come, Mary. Tomorrow morning I am going out into the world to win happiness for you and for me. If you do not come, I know what you mean, and you will never see me again."
SOPHY.
He intends to go? Out into the world? Forever, if you do not go? Then everything would be lost!
MARY.
"You will never again see your Robert."
SOPHY (coughs, just as the FORESTER is turning away from the window).
From the Bible, Mary.
MARY.
"As he hath caused a blemish in a man, so it shall be done to him again. Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord, your God."