Paula: Aubrey, she -- she guesses.

Aubrey: Guesses?

Paula: About me -- and Ardale.

Aubrey: About you -- and Ardale?

Paula: She says she suspected my character from the beginning...that’s why she’s always kept me at a distance… and now she sees through --

(She falters; he helps her to the ottoman, where she sits)

Aubrey: (Bending over her) Paula, you must have said something -- admitted something --

Paula: I don’t think so. It -- it’s in my face.

Aubrey: What?

Paula: She tells me so. She’s right! I’m tainted through and through; anybody can see it, anybody can find it out. You said much the same to me tonight.

Aubrey: (Partly to himself, as if dazed) If she has got this idea into her head we must drive it out, that’s all. We must take steps to -- What shall we do? We had a better -- better