No More Learning

Mrs. G. Will you be very angry? That--that voice, and what you said
about the engagement--

Capt. G. But you asked to be told that, darling.

Mrs. G. And that's why you shouldn't have told me! You must be the
Judge, and, oh, Pip, dearly as I love you, I shan't be able to help you!
I shall hinder you, and you must judge in spite of me!

Capt. G. (Meditatively. ) We have a great many things to find out
together, God help us both--say so, Pussy--but we shall understand each
other better every day; and I think I'm beginning to see now.
How in the
world did you come to know just the importance of giving me just that
lead?

Mrs. G. I've told you that I don't know. Only somehow it seemed that, in
all this new life, I was being guided for your sake as well as my own.

Capt. G. (Aside. ) Then Mafflin was right! They know, and we--we're blind
all of us. (Lightly. ) 'Getting a little beyond our depth, dear, aren't
we? I'll remember, and, if I fail, let me be punished as I deserve.

Mrs. G. There shall be no punishment.