GERALD. He has been here? MARGERY. But he has gone. GERALD. Where? MARGERY. To his wife. I sent him back to her. GERALD. Then, I am free! MARGERY. Yes, Gerald. GERALD. Free to say how I love you--how I have always loved you! Yes, Margery, I loved you even then--then when I spoke those unjust, cruel words; but love's so weird a thing it sometimes turns us against those we love. But when I saw you, there upon the ground, my heart turned back to you--no, it was not my heart, only my lips that were unfaithful! My heart was always yours--not half of it, but all--yours when I married you, yours when you said good-bye, and never more yours, never as much as now, now I have lost you. MARGERY. You have not lost me, if you love me that much! [_Throwing her arms round him._ GERALD. Margery! _LADY WARGRAVE and COLONEL re-enter, quietly, C., and stand, looking on, at back, amongst the trees._ GERALD. My wife again! MARGERY. But, Gerald, remember I am nothing more. I don't think I shall ever be a lady. GERALD. Always in my eyes! MARGERY. No, not even there. Only a woman. GERALD. I want you to be nothing less or more--only a woman! [_About to kiss her. LADY WARGRAVE, at back, bows her head, with her fan half spread before the COLONEL'S face. GERALD kisses MARGERY._ CURTAIN. CHISWICK PRESS:--CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO., TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON. Transcriber's Note This transcription is based on images scanned by Google from a copy made available by the Princeton University Library. The following changes to the text were noted: - Throughout the text, dashes at the end of lines have been normalized. - p. 31: _Re-enter MARGERY, R., she goes straight..._--Changed comma after "R." to semicolon. - p. 46: We musn't make so much noise.--Changed "musn't" to "mustn't" as "mustn't" is the preferred spelling elsewhere in the text. - p. 63: _Enter MRS. SYLVESTER, she hesitates, on seeing LADY WARGRAVE._--Changed comma after "SYLVESTER" to semicolon. - p. 78: Yes, Mrs. Sylvester, its best--Changed "its" to "it's". - p. 84, last line: It was enough--Added period to end of sentence. The html version of this etext attempts to reproduce the layout of the printed text. However, some concessions have been made, particularly in the handling of stage directions enclosed by brackets on one side. When these fit on a line, they were printed flush right. When they did not, they were printed on the next line. For the purposes of this transcription, these stage directions were all placed on the next line, indented the same amount from the left margin, and coded as hanging paragraphs. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The New Woman, by Sydney Grundy