CRAIG’S WIFE
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- even to insinuating that her visit here this afternoon was inspired by an interest in you.
Mrs. Craig
- I insinuated nothing of the kind. I simply asked a question in answer to an insinuation of yours.
Miss Austen
- The details are unimportant, Harriet; I know the principle.
Mrs. Craig
- Well, tell the truth about it, at least.
Miss Austen
- That is exactly what I am going to do—even at the risk of Walter’s disfavor.
Craig
- I don’t think you could very well incur that, Auntie.
Miss Austen
- You’re a man, Walter; and you’re in love with your wife. And I am perfectly familiar with the usual result of interference under those circumstances.
Craig
- Well, I hope I’m open to conviction, Auntie, if you have a grievance.
Miss Austen
- It isn’t my own cause I’m about to plead; it doesn’t matter about me. I sha’n’t be here. But I don’t want to be witness to the undoing of a man that was by way of becoming a very important citizen, without warning him of the danger.
Craig
- I don’t understand what you mean, Auntie.
Miss Austen
- That is probably the greater part of the danger, Walter
