Nothing would ever make him the man to endure that.
Rebecca. He MUST endure it! It is too late now for him to draw
back.
Kroll. Not a bit too late--not by any means too late. What has
happened can be hushed up--or at any rate can be explained away as
a purely temporary, though regrettable, aberration. But--there is
one step that it is absolutely essential he should take.
Rebecca. And that is?
Kroll. You must get him to legalise his position, Miss West.
Rebecca. The position in which he stands to me?
Kroll. Yes. You must see that you get him to do that.
Rebecca. Then you can't rid yourself of the conviction that the
relations between us need "legalising," as you say?
Kroll. I do not wish to go any more precisely into the question.
But I certainly have observed that the conditions under which it
always seems easiest for people to abandon all their so-called
prejudices are when--ahem!
Rebecca. When it is a question of the relations between a man and
a woman, I suppose you mean?
Kroll. Yes--to speak candidly--that is what I mean.
Rebecca (walks across the room and looks out of the window). I
was on the point of saying that I wish you had been right, Mr.
Kroll.
Kroll. What do you mean by that? You say it so strangely!
Rebecca. Oh, nothing! Do not let us talk any more about it. Ah,
there he is!
Kroll. Already! I will go, then.
Rebecca (turning to him).
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