Miss Vernon.
[Afraid that she is going to blurt out a secret which had much better not be referred to.] Grace, don’t be stupid.
Grace.
Once I suspected what she was going to do, but she was too clever for me. I so wanted to believe it was all right. I wanted her to go away quietly.
Miss Vernon.
[Trying to calm her.] Lots of women have been in difficulties before, and they haven’t killed themselves. There must have been some kink in her nature. I suppose the instinct of life wasn’t so strong as it is with most of us, and—and she would have committed suicide for almost any reason.
Grace.
There was only one thing to say, and I didn’t say it. I couldn’t.
Miss Vernon.