ROGER
Well, he couldn't keep it dark forever. Mother almost found out.
MARGARET
Almost found out?
ROGER
Yes. So of course I stepped in. We had a frightful row.
MARGARET
When was that?
ROGER
Six months ago. I got him clear. It was hard--this time the woman almost
got him.
MARGARET
Oh!
ROGER
I helped him. But I did it on one condition--that he go to work.
MARGARET
Work? What about his music?
ROGER
That's what he said. But I asked him if he had thought about his music
when he got into these scrapes. He couldn't say a word. So it was all
arranged for him to go into my office, right under my eye, when mother was
taken sick. Then she wanted him to stay near her, so.... And then she
died. And the accident. Well I don't see what more I could have done.
MARGARET
No.... Of course, it wasn't as if you turned against him. And the
office--he was to pay you back that way?
ROGER
Pay me back? Why, if he could, naturally; but that wasn't my idea, that
was only incidental. My idea was to get him into the habit of hard work.
MARGARET
But he always _did_ work!
ROGER
Oh, he worked hard enough.
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