[_Takes her hand._] You can count upon me and my boy so long as
we live.
[_She impulsively but tenderly kisses her._
[MISS GODESBY _is very much surprised, but moved._
MISS GODESBY. [_Half laughing, half crying, and pulling her veil down to
hide her emotion._] By George! I haven't been kissed by a woman for
years! Good-by.
[WARDEN _starts to go out with_ MISS GODESBY. BLANCHE _stops him._
BLANCHE. Wait one moment--I want to speak alone to Miss Godesby.
[MISS GODESBY _goes out Left._
BLANCHE. [_Aside to_ STERLING.] You tell him; I cannot. Tell him the
_truth_.
[_She goes out after_ MISS GODESBY.
WARDEN. Dick.
STERLING. Ned?
WARDEN. I have nothing to say to you, Sterling.
[WARDEN _looks away and whistles a tune to show his unwillingness to
listen._ STERLING _speaks clearly so_ WARDEN _shall hear._
STERLING. I have a message for you from my wife. [_There is a second's
pause._ WARDEN _stops whistling and turns and looks at_ STERLING.] She
asks me to explain--to tell--to tell you a decision she has come to.
[_There is another pause._
WARDEN. Yes?
[_Anxious, at a supreme tension, and now a little alarmed as to the
decision._
STERLING. She has decided not to leave my house.
WARDEN. [_Adds._] _Yet!_
STERLING.
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