I must now. Everything is settled, and there can be no drawing back. LUCY. Don't you care for me any more? ALEC. Care for you? I love you with all my heart and soul. LUCY. [_Eagerly._] Then take me with you. ALEC. You! LUCY. You don't know what I can do. With you to help me I can be brave. Let me come, Alec? ALEC. No, it's impossible. You don't know what you ask. LUCY. Then let me wait for you? Let me wait till you come back? ALEC. And if I never come back? LUCY. I will wait for you still. ALEC. Then have no fear. I will come back. My journey was only dangerous because I wanted to die. I want to live now, and I shall live. LUCY. Oh, Alec, Alec, I'm so glad you love me. THE END * * * * * _THE NOVELS OF W. S. MAUGHAM_ _Each cr. 8vo, Price 6s_ _THE EXPLORER_ _THE MAGICIAN_ _THE MERRY-GO-ROUND_ _MRS. CRADDOCK_ _LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN_ _A MAN OF HONOUR_ _HEINEMANN'S MODERN PLAYS_ 16mo. Each price is 6d paper, or 2s 6d cloth By the same Author _LADY FREDERICK_ _JACK STRAW_ _THE PLAYS OF SIR ARTHUR W. PINERO_ Complete Edition Twenty-three Volumes _PLAYS OF HUBERT HENRY DAVIES_ Two Volumes _PLAYS OF C. HADDON CHAMBERS_ Two Volumes _THE PLAYS OF W. E. HENLEY AND R. L. STEVENSON_ Four Volumes Also in One Volume, crown 8vo, buckram, Price 6s _THE COLLECTED WORKS OF HENRIK IBSEN_ Copyright Edition entirely revised by WILLIAM ARCHER Complete in Eleven Volumes, crown 8vo, Price 4s each _LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN_ 21 _Bedford St., W.C._ _A MAN OF HONOUR_ _A TRAGEDY_ _In Four Acts_ _By W. S. MAUGHAM_ _LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN_ _MCMXII_ _Copyright: London William Heinemann 1912_ _TO GERALD KELLY_ "Ich übersah meine Sache und wusste wohin ich wollte." ECKERMANN, _Gespräche mit Goethe_. GENERAL PREFACE