GEOFFREY I would rather you considered yourself quite free. In
warfare it doesn't pay to be "fair" to one's enemy.
ANNYS [Still hardening.] Besides, there is no need. There will
be other opportunities. I can contest some other constituency. If
I win, claim the seat for that.
[A moment.]
GEOFFREY So this is only the beginning? You have decided to
devote yourself to a political career?
ANNYS Why not?
GEOFFREY If I were to ask you to abandon it, to come back to your
place at my side--helping me, strengthening me?
ANNYS You mean you would have me abandon my own task--merge myself
in you?
GEOFFREY Be my wife.
ANNYS It would not be right. I, too, have my work.
GEOFFREY If it takes you away from me?
ANNYS Why need it take me away from you? Why cannot we work
together for common ends, each in our own way?
GEOFFREY We talked like that before we tried it. Marriage is not
a partnership; it is a leadership.
ANNYS [She looks at him.] You mean--an ownership.
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