If only I could believe I was necessary to you!
Ah, my dear! We're all the same; we're all as hollow as that tree! When
it's ourselves it's always a special case!
Positive cool voice of a young man who knows that he knows everything.
He is perfectly calm.
They must go their own ways, poor things! She can't put herself in the
child's place, and the child can't put herself in Molly's. A woman and a
girl--there's the tree of life between them!
Ashamed? Am I to live all my life like a dead woman because you're
ashamed? Am I to live like the dead because you 're a child that knows
nothing of life? Listen, Joy, you 'd better understand this once for
all. Your Father has no right over me and he knows it. We 've been
hateful to each other for years. Can you understand that? Don't cover
your face like a child--look at me.
STRIFE
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