[Much disturbed.] That’s an awful thought to have put into my head, Sylvia. I should never forgive myself if....
Sylvia.
If you’d believed as we believe, he would have been supported, as it were, by all our faith. It would have made that terrible passage from this life to the life to come a little less terrible. You’ve failed him just when he needed you.
John.
[Indignantly.] Oh, Sylvia, how can you say anything so heartless?
Sylvia.
[Coldly.] It’s true.
John.
Heaven knows, I know that death isn’t easy. You can’t think I’d be so inhuman as to do anything to make it more difficult?
Sylvia.