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MARGARET
Look here, Roger, you can't keep this up!
ROGER
No, I can't keep this up. Besides, it's going to rain to-morrow.
MARGARET
What do you mean?
ROGER
Watering the plants. Isn't that what you meant?
MARGARET
You aren't watering the plants. I've been watching you for half an hour.
If you only would! But you keep forgetting what you are at.
ROGER
I wish it were only forgetting--it's remembering.
MARGARET
Oh Roger, don't I know? But you mustn't!
ROGER
I suppose not. I suppose not.
MARGARET
I knew all along, and I kept away. How you felt, I mean. I ought to have
come over a week ago. You haven't anybody to talk to--that's the trouble,
Roger, really. I know. Now let's have the whole thing out. Come. And don't
be afraid of me. Why, I could tie you all up in bandages if you needed it.
And not flinch.
ROGER
Yes, I guess you could.... It's, it's absurd how well I keep!
MARGARET
Hm. Isn't it? You ought to be wilting away like a rose. But no, you keep
your splendid strength and go on with two or three men's work! What would
your mother think if she heard you talking like that? Don't you know that
you couldn't please her better than by going on as you are?
ROGER
That's so.
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