And we shall be dead, Guy
dear--dead and cast into the outer
darkness
where there is--
HE.
Kipling - Poems
Ha! ha!
SHE. And the fun of the situation comes in--where, my Lancelot?
HE. Nowhere, Guinevere. I was only thinking of something.
SHE. They say men have a keener sense of humor than women. Now _I_ was
thinking of the scandal.
HE. Don't think of anything so ugly. We shall be beyond it.
SHE. It will be there all the same in the mouths of Simla--telegraphed
over India, and talked of at the dinners--and when He goes out they
will stare at Him to see how He takes it.
And we shall be dead, Guy
dear--dead and cast into the outer
darkness
where there is--
HE.
Love at least. Isn't that enough?
SHE. I have said so.
HE. And you think so still?
SHE. What do you think?
Ha. What have I _done_? It means equal ruin to me, as the world reckons
it--outcasting, the loss of my appointment, the breaking of my life's
work. I pay my price.
SHE. And are you so much above the world that you can afford to pay it?
Am I?
