Let me alone. I’ll kill myself if you touch me.
Taylor.
I guess you won’t.
[He gives her a resounding kiss on the cheek and lets her go. Sinking into a chair, she puts her hands up to her flaming cheeks.]
Norah.
Oh, how shameful, how shameful.
[She sobs in helpless, angry despair. He puts his hand gently on her shoulder.]
Taylor.
Hadn’t you better cave in, my girl? You’ve tried your strength against mine and it didn’t amount to much. You tried to shoot me and I only made you look a darned fool. I guess you’re beat, my girl. There’s only one law here, and that’s the law of the strongest. You’ve got to do what I want because I can make you.
Norah.