looks, whispers. [With a nervous movement of the hands.] Insomma, wooing.
Robert
[Bewildered.] But how do you know all this?
Richard
She told me.
Robert
This afternoon?
Richard
No. Time after time, as it happened,
Robert
You knew? From her? [Richard nods.] You were watching us all the time?
Richard
[Very coldly.] I was watching you.
Robert
[Quickly.] I mean, watching me. And you never spoke! You had only to speak a word—to save me from myself. You were trying me. [Passes his hand again over his forehead.] It was a terrible trial: now also. [Desperately.] Well, it is past. It will be a lesson to me for all my life. You hate me now for what I have done and for . . .
Richard
[Quietly, looking at him.] Have I said that I hate you?
Robert
Do you not? You must.
Richard
Even if Bertha had not told me I should have known.
