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Harriet is preparing for tea with an old friend, Margaret, who married the man Harriet once loved and turned down because he was a poor painter. But now, John is newly returned from Europe with a reputation as a great portrait painter. Hetty, Harriet’s primitive self, seethes with hatred for Margaret. She wants to Harriet to steal John from Margaret, and the best way to do that is to arrange a private portrait sitting. In this scene, Hetty advises Harriet on how to behave so that she has the
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HETTY: Oh, if you love him--
HARRIET: I? I haven't any feelings. It isn't my business to love anybody.
HETTY: Then why need you object to calling him my husband?
HARRIET: I resent your appropriation of a man who is managed only through the cleverness of my artifice.
HETTY: You may be clever enough to deceive him, Harriet, but I am still the one who suffers.
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