G. Will you be very angry? That--that voice, and what you said about the
engagement--
Capt. G. But you asked to be told that, darling.
Mrs. G. And that's why you shouldn't have told me! You must be the Judge, and,
oh, Pip, dearly as I love you, I shan't be able to help you! I shall hinder
you, and you must judge in spite of me!
Capt. G. (Meditatively.) We have a great many things to find out together, God
help us both--say so, Pussy--but we shall understand each other better every
day; and I think I'm beginning to see now. How in the world did you come to
know just the importance of giving me just that lead?
Mrs. G. I've told you that I don't know. Only somehow it seemed that, in all
this new life, I was being guided for your sake as well as my own.
Capt. G. (Aside.) Then Mafflin was right! They know, and we--we're blind all of
us. (Lightly.) 'Getting a little beyond our depth, dear, aren't we? I'll
remember, and, if I fail, let me be punished as I deserve.
Mrs. G. There shall be no punishment. We'll start into life together from here-
-you and I--and no one else.
Capt. G. And no one else. (A pause.) Your eyelashes are all wet, Sweet? Was
there ever such a quaint little Absurdity?
Mrs. G. Was there ever such nonsense talked before?
Capt.
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