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won't live, with one whose equal I am not. This has been coming ever since you made that speech. I told you that night what the end would be. MORE. [Trying to put his arms round her] Don't be so terribly cruel! KATHERINE. No! Let's have the truth! People so wide apart don't love! Let me go! MORE. In God's name, how can I help the difference in our faiths? KATHERINE. Last night you used the word--bargain. Quite right. I meant to buy you. I meant to kill your faith. You showed me what I was doing. I don't like to be shown up as a driver of bargains, Stephen. MORE. God knows--I never meant---- KATHERINE. If I'm not yours in spirit--I don't choose to be your-- mistress. MORE, as if lashed by a whip, has thrown up his hands in an attitude of defence. KATHERINE. Yes, that's cruel! It shows the heights you live on. I won't drag you down. MORE. For God's sake, put your pride away, and see! I'm fighting for the faith that's in me. What else can a man do? What else? Ah! Kit! Do see! KATHERINE. I'm strangled here! Doing nothing--sitting silent--when my brothers are fighting, and being killed. I shall try to go out nursing. Helen will come with me. I have my faith, too; my poor common love of country. I can't stay here with you. I spent last night on the floor--thinking--and I know! MORE. And Olive? KATHERINE. I shall leave her at Father's, with Nurse; unless you forbid me to take her. You can. MORE. [Icily] That I shall not do--you know very well. You are free to go, and to take her. KATHERINE. [Very low] Thank you! [Suddenly she turns to him, and draws his eyes on her. Without a sound, she puts her whole strength into that look] Stephen! Give it up! Come down to me! The festive sounds from the street grow louder. There can be heard the blowing of whistles, and bladders, and all the sounds of joy. MORE. And drown in--that? KATHERINE turns swiftly to the door. There she stands and again looks at him. Her face is mysterious, from the conflicting currents of her emotions. MORE. So--you're going? KATHERINE. [In a whisper] Yes. She bends her head, opens the door, and goes. MORE starts forward as if to follow her, but OLIVE has appeared in the doorway. She has on a straight little white coat and a round white cap. OLIVE. Aren't you coming with us, Daddy? [MORE shakes his head.
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