] Don't
wonder at it. All this overwork and excitement.
ANNYS I'm afraid I've been hurting you.
GEOFFREY [Still growling.] Both been hurting each other, I
expect.
ANNYS [She smiles.] It's so easy to hurt those that love us.
[She makes a little movement, feebly stretches out her arms to him.
Wondering, he comes across to her. She draws him down beside her,
takes his arms and places them about her.] I want to feel that I
belong to you. That you are strong. That I can rest upon you.
GEOFFREY [He cannot understand.] But only an hour ago--[He looks
at her.] Have you, too, turned traitor to the Woman's Cause?
ANNYS [She answers smiling.] No. But woman, dear, is a much more
complicated person than I thought her. It is only in this hour
that God has revealed her to me. [She draws him closer.] I want
you, dear--dear husband. Take care of us--both, won't you? I love
you, I love you. I did not know how much.
GEOFFREY [He gathers her to him, kissing her, crooning over her.
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