Miss Vernon.
I have an idea that it’s only your sin that has made your love worth having.
Archibald.
[Rather shocked.] Helen.
Miss Vernon.
You were rather hard and selfish before because you had nothing in particular to reproach yourself with. Perhaps it was necessary that you should step from the narrow path of virtue in order to become a virtuous woman.
Archibald.
Helen, you can’t mean that.
Miss Vernon.
It’s very often only repentance that makes men and women human.