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_Ger._ Tell you what, darling?
_Con._ That--that--that you--Oh! you know what, Arthur!
_Ger._ How could I, my child, with that--!--Shall I tell you now?
_Con._ No, no! I am too happy to listen--even to you, Arthur! But _he_ should never have--I did find him out at last. If I had but known you did not like him! (_hiding her face_.)
_Ger._ (_embracing his father_) Father! father! I cannot hold my happiness! And it is _all_ your doing!
_Col. G. No_, I tell you, my boy! I was but a straw on the tide of things. I will serve you yet though. I will be your father yet.
_Bill_ (_aside_). Fathers ain't _all_ bad coves! Here's two on 'em--good sort of old Jacobs--both on 'em. Shouldn't mind much if I had a father o' my own arter all!
GERVAISE _turns to_ CONSTANCE--_then glances at the Psyche_. COL.
GERVAISE _removes the sheet_. GERVAISE _leads_ CONSTANCE _to the chair on the dais--turns from her to the Psyche, and begins to work on the clay, glancing from the one to the other--the next moment leaves the Psyche, and seats himself on the dais at_ CONSTANCE'S _feet, looking up in her face._ COL. GERVAISE _stands regarding them fixedly. Slow distant music._ BILL _is stealing away_.
_Curtain falls._
THE END.
