When
he stops speaking, MAGGIE gives a gasping sob. He hears it, and
starting, sees her._
GEOFFREY. Maggie!
AUSTIN. Geoffrey, is what this girl says true?
GEOFFREY. That I married her in New Haven? Yes.
MAGGIE. [_Rises._] I'll go, please, I'd rather go.
AUSTIN. Yes, go, Maggie; it's better.
[_MAGGIE goes out Right._
GEOFFREY. [_As soon as she is out of the room._] Promise me, Jack, you
won't tell any one! It's awful, I know! For two years at college I went
all to pieces and led a rotten life,--and one night, drunk, I married
her, and it isn't so much her fault. I suppose she thought I loved
her,--but this would break up the old lady and gentleman so, if they
knew, I couldn't stand it! And Jinny, for God's sake, don't tell Jinny.
_She respects me._ You won't tell her, will you?
AUSTIN. No. But Maggie says you want to marry some one else now.
GEOFFREY. [_With a change, in great shame._] That's true, too.
[_He sits in utter dejection on the sofa._
AUSTIN. How are you going to do it?
GEOFFREY. I must make money somehow and buy off Maggie.
AUSTIN.
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