UNCLE RICHARD
Well, well. But circumstances--really, Richard, don't you think it your
_duty_ to stay?
RICHARD
Why?
UNCLE RICHARD
Must I explain? We are met, after a long separation, in circumstances
personally sorrowful to me, and I trust, to some extent, to you as well.
We....
RICHARD
Yes, a _long_ separation.
UNCLE RICHARD
I admit, Richard, that from your point of view my attitude has not always
been as--as considerate, perhaps, as you might have expected. But I have
been a very busy man, and--
RICHARD
As far as I am concerned, uncle, I have nothing to blame you for; but my
mother....
UNCLE RICHARD
Your mother? Surely, Richard, your mother never criticised me to you? She
was much too fine a woman. Besides, I helped her in many ways you may know
nothing about.
RICHARD
No, mother said nothing. She wouldn't have, anyhow--and as far as your
helping her is concerned, I can only judge of that by results.
UNCLE RICHARD
Results? What do you mean? I have no desire to catalogue the things I have
done for one who was near to me, but--
RICHARD
That's all very well, uncle, and I have no criticism to make.
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