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HELEN: What have we done! This is all moonlight and madness. To-morrow comes the clear light of day.
ERNEST: Ah, but we'll love each other to-morrow!
HELEN: But we cannot marry—then or any other to-morrow.
ERNEST: Can't? What nonsense!
HELEN: (shaking her head and restraining him) I have slaved for you all these months—not because I wanted to win you from your work but to help you in it. And now—after all—shall I destroy you? No! No!
ERNEST: I love you—you love me—nothing else matters.
HELEN: Everything else matters. I'm not a little débutante to be persuaded that I am needed because I am wanted! I haven't played with you; I have worked with you, and I know! Think of Theodore! Think of Lucy! And now poor little Jean. Marry you? Never!
ERNEST: You mean your career?
HELEN: (with supreme
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