[Astweb-users] ? MORELL. (outside, calling to Proserp

[Schaeffer <dub...@ar...>]

 playing the good man just like you. When you began your heroics about
leaving me here with Candida-- MORELL (involuntarily). Candida?
MARCHBANKS. Oh, yes: I've got that far. Heroics are infectious: I caught
the disease from you. I swore not to say a word in your absence that I
would not have said a month ago in your presence. MORELL. Did you keep
your oath? MARCHBANKS. (suddenly perching himself grotesquely on the
easy chair). I was ass enough to keep it until about ten minutes ago. Up
to that moment I went on desperately reading to her--reading my own
poems--anybody's poems--to stave off a conversation. I was standing
outside the gate of Heaven, and refusing to go in. Oh, you can't think
how heroic it was, and how uncomfortable! Then-- MORELL (steadily
controlling his suspense). Then? MARCHBANKS (prosaically slipping down
into a quite ordinary attitude in the chair). Then she couldn't bear b