Archibald.
Repentance is useless without sacrifice.
Grace.
Yes, I feel that. And the only sacrifice I can make is to lay bare my soul before Claude and accept my punishment.
Archibald.
And then, I think Claude should be given the chance of deciding for himself. It’s not fair to leave him in ignorance.
Miss Vernon.
[To Grace.] Don’t you know that Claude loves you, and trusts you, and believes in you?
Grace.
That is all my torment. I’m so unworthy. If I didn’t love him—if I didn’t want him to love me so much—it wouldn’t be so dreadful.... I can’t bear that there should be this secret between us. I know that he’s not loving me, but some fancy of his own heart. And I’m jealous. I’m jealous of the woman he loves who isn’t me. And I want him to love me as I am, as I love him.