GEORGIANA. [_Going to_ LOUISE.] Oh, no, he hasn't, Louise, he's only broken your bank, and you don't know the difference. I want to say to you now,--that all Steve needed was real love, and the guiding hand of a true, sensible woman-- STEVEN. [_Interrupting her, goes to_ GEORGIANA. GEORGIANA _turns to_ STEVE.] No, Georgy! You mustn't blame Louise! I love her and always will, just as she is. She doesn't mean all she says now--she's angry, and she has a right to be--I'm one of those men who never succeed--who never have any luck, and it's bad luck for her to have to share mine. GEORGIANA. Well, what's done's done? But, as Louise says, my money's left. STEVEN. Yes, but-- GEORGIANA. Mine must do for all of us. COAST. [_Strongly._] Excuse me, but I'll see that Louise and her mother don't suffer; _you_ keep your money. GEORGIANA. No, that's not the point, Sam. I asked you once to give my brother advice and you refused. You might have prevented this, and now we can get along without your money. Steve won't have to go out of his own family to make up as far as he can for what he's lost out of yours. [SAM _turns away to the mantel._ STEVEN. Georgy! O Georgy! You're an angel! [_Hugging her and kissing her in a transport of relief._] I'll get out of it, you'll see! I'll cover myself to-morrow. I can do that with your Croton Bonds and your Mutual Life and a couple of mortgages, and we'll win in the end, and Louise get hers back and mother too--! [_His arm about his wife._] It's _sure_ in the end, _it's got_ to be, Louise. [_There is no response from_ LOUISE. GEORGIANA. Steven, I have a condition about my money. STEVEN. [_Crestfallen._] What? GEORGIANA. It isn't to be used as you think. If I'm to help you, it must be in my own way. STEVEN. How do you mean? GEORGIANA. What's lost is _lost_. I have between five and six hundred thousand dollars, and we must all live on the income of that. And you must give your word of honor never to gamble in stocks again. [SAM _comes back to front of table._ LOUISE. [_To_ STEVEN, _suddenly realizing it again._] You let _all_ my money go? GEORGIANA. [_To_ LOUISE.] I will share what I have with you. STEVEN. [_To_ GEORGIANA.] But you must let me try to get back-- GEORGIANA. [_Interrupting._] It would only be throwing good money after bad! COAST. [_Sardonically._] How about Moles and Lizzie? GEORGIANA. Don't _you_ worry about them! Moles and Lizzie shall have their money back, of course. STEVEN. But I can't do it, Georgy. It's losing--why it's like losing a million to us! GEORGIANA. Suppose you went on speculating with my money, and it went the same way as Louise's and her mother's? COAST. And Lizzie's and Moles? STEVEN. But it can't--it _can't!_ [STEVEN _sits on the sofa._ GEORGIANA _sits beside_ STEVEN. LOUISE _is still in the arm-chair Left._