Nina
[Her voice becoming a bit uncanny, her thoughts breaking through]
No, I’m not myself yet. That’s just it. Not all myself. But I’ve been becoming myself. And I must finish!
Professor Leeds
[With angry significance—to Marsden]
You hear her, Charlie? She’s a sick girl!
Nina
[Slowly and strangely]
I’m not sick. I’m too well. But they are sick and I must give my health to help them to live on, and to live on myself.
[With a sudden intensity in her tone]
I must pay for my cowardly treachery to Gordon! You should understand this, Father, you who—
[She swallows hard, catching her breath]
[Thinking desperately]
I’m beginning to tell him! . . . I mustn’t! . . . he’s my father! . . .
Professor Leeds
[In a panic of guilty fear, but defiantly]
What do you mean? I am afraid you’re not responsible for what you’re saying.
Nina
[Again with the strange intensity]
I must pay! It’s my plain duty! Gordon is dead! What
