Clement, you terrify me. [C.R.] Oh, I am ashamed--ashamed. You have made me shudder at the old way. Dear, if I have lost a particle of your love, I'll win it back. You will show me the new way, won't you?
The new way for us is the old way for the wise. It is a pleasant way strewn with flowers, the flowers of self-abnegation--of sweet reasonableness--of patient tolerance--of enduring trustfulness. Walking in that way we seek diligently for the happiness, not of ourselves, but of each other. Rising in the morning we say, not, I will find happiness to-day, but I will give happiness to-day. In that way lie peace, the fulfilment of our better selves, the full golden harvest of love.
[_As he speaks these words with deep sympathy, standing a little away from her, she gradually draws nearer to him._
I will walk in that way with you, Clement. [_She stoops, and taking one of his hands kisses it. Pause._]
[_He stoops and raises her, and takes her in his arms._
_Enter MISS WOODWARD and GUNNING. GUNNING wears a rose in his coat._
Don't trouble about us any more. We're reconciled. [_She remains in her husband's arms._]
[_GUNNING turns smilingly to MISS WOODWARD and takes her hand._
[_Smiling back upon GUNNING._] Don't trouble about us any more. We're engaged.
This transcription is based on scanned images posted by the Internet Archive from a copy in the University of California, Los Angeles Library:
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