GILBERT.
If that is the case, you can be happy; can't he, Jane?
JOSHUA.
I can't do anything to add to your happiness, but Jane can do everything. You love her. I may never be able to do anything for you. Fortunately for you, you are not high and mighty enough to ever need the help of the turnkey of the Tower of London. Jane will pay my debt at the same time that she pays her own, because she and I owe everything to you. Jane was but a poor child, a forsaken orphan; you took her home and brought her up. I was drowning in the Thames, one fine day, and you dragged me out of the water.
GILBERT.
Why do you always talk about that, Joshua?
JOSHUA.
In order to tell you that our duty, Jane's and mine, is to love you. I, as a brother; and she, not as a sister.
JANE.
No, as a woman. I understand you, Joshua. [She sinks back into her reverie.