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It depends. But tell me what you thought--I mean during this last year or so. It didn't come to you all at once.
ROGER
Well.... Of course, I always took it for granted about his music. He seemed to be wonderful at that. And mother believed so in him. It really began when he left college, I found he had debts.
MARGARET
Debts?
ROGER
Yes. Not just clothes and living--other things. I paid up, but I didn't like it. I didn't like the things. But I thought it was just a boy's foolishness. I thought he would be all right after that, but--he wasn't.
MARGARET
He wasn't....
ROGER
No. After a couple of years I had to straighten it out again. I came down on him flat. He promised to cut it.
MARGARET
But he was doing such wonderful work!
ROGER
Yes, everybody began to say so. If he had only been that alone, the musician! But--
MARGARET
But afterward?
ROGER
Well, a year ago I began to hear things said again. And then I found letters and bills. It was the same thing all over. He hadn't kept his word.
MARGARET
But what did _he_ say?
ROGER
I let it go for weeks, hoping he would say something. But never a word.
MARGARET
He loved you so. How he must have suffered!
ROGER
Yes, I suppose he did suffer. But if he cared so for me why did he try to keep it hidden, the one thing I would hate most?
MARGARET
That was his way. It made him ashamed.
ROGER
Well, he couldn't keep it dark forever. Mother almost found out.
MARGARET
Almost found out?
ROGER
Yes. So of course I stepped in. We had a frightful row.
MARGARET
When was that?
ROGER
Six months ago. I got him clear. It was hard--this time the woman almost got him.
MARGARET
Oh!
ROGER
I helped him. But I did it on one condition--that he go to work.
MARGARET
Work? What about his music?
ROGER
That's what he said. But I asked him if he had thought about his music when he got into these sc.r.a.pes. He couldn't say a word. So it was all arranged for him to go into my office, right under my eye, when mother was taken sick. Then she wanted him to stay near her, so.... And then she died. And the accident. Well I don't see what more I could have done.
MARGARET
No.... Of course, it wasn't as if you turned against him. And the office--he was to pay you back that way?
ROGER
