Miss Vernon.
But who cares about your happiness?
Archibald.
Helen, how can you be so unkind?
Miss Vernon.
No one knows why we’ve been brought into the world, but it evidently wasn’t for our happiness. Or if it was, the Being who put us here has made a most outrageous mess of it. Put your happiness out of the question.
Archibald.
[Very earnestly to Grace.] If the sinner repents, let him confess his sin. That’s the only proof he can give of a contrite spirit.
Miss Vernon.
Nonsense. He can give a much more sensible proof by acting differently in future.