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ACT IV.
you I spoke, for you alone. Oh, say something, mother. Have I but found one love to lose another? Don't tell me that. O mother, you are cruel. [Gets up and flings himself sobbing on a sofa.]
MRS. ARBUTHNOT
[To HESTER.] But has he found indeed another love?
HESTER
You know I have loved him always.
MRS. ARBUTHNOT
But we are very poor.
HESTER
Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden. Let him share it with me.
MRS. ARBUTHNOT
But we are disgraced. We rank among the outcasts. Gerald is nameless. The sins of the parents should be visited on the children. It is God's law.
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