[_Interrupting him._] I _do_! You are worth everything to me, and
you will be worth much to the world yet!
GEOFFREY. I love you, Ruth--that's the one claim I can make to deserve
you. But it's helped me to give up _all_ the beastly pleasures I used to
indulge in!
RUTH. [_Softly._] Geof!
GEOFFREY. Which I used to think the only things worth living for, and
which now, thanks to you, I loathe,--every one of them.
RUTH. I'm so glad! I've been some help, then.
GEOFFREY. If I'd only got you earlier, I'd have been a different man,
Ruth!
RUTH. [_Smiling and taking his nervous hand in hers._] Then I mightn't
have fallen in love with you if you were a _different_ man!
GEOFFREY. Dear girl! Anyway, this is the good news that I want to tell
you--I hope now to have things settled in a couple of weeks.
RUTH. [_In glad relief._] Geoffrey!
GEOFFREY. But--I mayn't be successful; it might be, Ruth--it might be,
we would have to wait--for years--
RUTH. [_Quietly._] I don't think I could bear that! It's not easy for me
to lie and deceive as I've had to the last few months; I don't think I
could keep it up.
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