A WOMAN OF
ACT III.
capable of anything infamous or base. I can't believe it of him—I can't.
HESTER
[Outside.] Let me go! Let me go!
[Enter HESTER in terror, and rushes over to GERALD and flings herself in his arms.]
HESTER
Oh! save me save me from him!
GERALD
From whom?
HESTER
He has insulted me! Horribly insulted me! Save me!
GERALD
Who? Who has dared??
[LORD ILLINGWORTH enters at back of stage. HESTER breaks from GERALD'S arms and points to him.]
GERALD [He is quite beside himself with rage and indignation]
Lord Illingworth, you have insulted the purest thing on God's earth, a thing as
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