MARGARET
Debts?
ROGER
Yes. Not just clothes and living--other things. I paid up, but I didn't
like it. I didn't like the things. But I thought it was just a boy's
foolishness. I thought he would be all right after that, but--he wasn't.
MARGARET
He wasn't....
ROGER
No. After a couple of years I had to straighten it out again. I came down
on him flat. He promised to cut it.
MARGARET
But he was doing such wonderful work!
ROGER
Yes, everybody began to say so. If he had only been that alone, the
musician! But--
MARGARET
But afterward?
ROGER
Well, a year ago I began to hear things said again. And then I found
letters and bills. It was the same thing all over. He hadn't kept his
word.
MARGARET
But what did _he_ say?
ROGER
I let it go for weeks, hoping he would say something. But never a word.
MARGARET
He loved you so. How he must have suffered!
ROGER
Yes, I suppose he did suffer. But if he cared so for me why did he try to
keep it hidden, the one thing I would hate most?
MARGARET
That was his way. It made him ashamed.
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