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CRAIG’S WIFE
Mrs. Craig (turning away towards the mantelpiece)
- You’ll be here; unless I’m very much mistaken.
Craig
- You don’t know your man, Harriet.
Mrs. Craig
- I know him well enough for that, anyway.
Craig
- Oh, you knew me pretty well, I’ll grant you that; particularly when you said my mind worked very slowly.
Mrs. Craig
- It’s working pretty slowly now, when you don’t appreciate the absurdity of a move of this kind.
Craig
- But you failed to reckon with the thoroughness of my mind, Harriet, when it does work. And it appreciates this situation so thoroughly that it has no illusions about the impossibility of my continuance here.
Mrs. Craig
- What is there so impossible about it?
Craig
- We’ve shown our hands, Harriet, and the game is up.
Mrs. Craig
- What did I do last night that was so terrible?
Craig
- You simply showed your hand, that was all.
Mrs. Craig
- I simply kept you from making a fool of yourself; that was all I did.
Craig
- But you also showed me how I could keep from making a fool of myself in the future.
