MARGARET
Roger! You shan't say that! You shan't!
ROGER
I don't want to, Margaret, but that's what life itself says. We can't get
behind life. We can't beat evolution and the law of survival.
MARGARET
But his talent, his fine talent--and his exquisite nature!
ROGER
I know. But there it is. It's kinder in the long run to be cruel, if the
truth is cruel. We've got to be true to things as they are.
MARGARET
But take things as they are! He wasn't vicious about--about women, he was
like a child. Of course they got his money, but even so, they weren't all
mere schemers. Some of them were very decent. Why, one of them--
ROGER
What the deuce do _you_ know about them? What about one of them?
MARGARET
She cried. She said she knew it wasn't right, that he couldn't marry her,
but she did like him, and she had children of her own.... I'm sure she was
very tender to him.
ROGER
Who told you? Where did you see her?
MARGARET
_There._
ROGER
There! In my own house?
MARGARET
Yes.
ROGER
How did _she_ get there?
MARGARET
Your mother sent for her.
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