JINNY. But I _do_ ask to see it!
AUSTIN. Then this time I must refuse you!
JINNY. What! is it even more compromising than _your_ letter to her?
AUSTIN. What letter? [_Looking first on the desk, he looks across at her
and sees it in her hand. He is angry, but also frightened for fear it
has told her her brother's secret._] And you've read it?
JINNY. It lay open on the desk there, and anyway the end justifies me!
AUSTIN. [_In an agony._] What does it tell you? I forget what I wrote!
JINNY. It tells me that my jealousy all along has been right, that I've
been a fool to let you blind me!
AUSTIN. [_With a great sigh of relief._] Is that all?
JINNY. [_Beside herself._] "Is that all!" Isn't that enough? Dear God,
isn't that enough? That there's an understanding between you and Ruth to
get rid of _me_!
AUSTIN. If it tells you that, the letter lies! Give it to me!
JINNY. No! _I'll_ read it to you! [_Reads with bitter emphasis._] "The
satisfaction of the visit to Brooklyn prevents me from being
disappointed at having missed your telegram till too late to go to your
house to-night!" So--you and she went to Brooklyn, did you, and that's
why you came back too late to go to the theatre with me? You _cheat_!
[_She screams in her madness.
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