Grace.
You have been rather a blackguard, haven’t you?
Cobbett.
No. I don’t pretend to be better than anybody else, but I’m quite certain I’m no worse. I’m a perfectly normal man in good health. It’s idiotic to abuse me because I’ve done what any other fellow would have done in my place.
Grace.
[Suddenly understanding.] Is that all it was to you?
Cobbett.
What d’you mean?
Grace.
Wasn’t I anything to you at all? Only a more or less attractive woman who happened to cross your path? If I was only that, why couldn’t you leave me alone? What harm did I ever do you? Oh, it was cruel of you. Cruel!