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But I have only one life to live; and I maynt get
a second chance. Excuse me, sir; but the letters must go to catch the
post. [_She goes out with the letters._]
_The two brothers look inquiringly at Haslam._
HASLAM. Silly girl! Going to marry a village woodman and live in a hovel
with him and a lot of kids tumbling over one another, just because the
fellow has poetic-looking eyes and a moustache.
CONRAD [_demurring_] She said it was because she had only one life.
HASLAM. Same thing, poor girl! The fellow persuaded her to chuck it; and
when she marries him she'll have to stick it. Rotten state of things, I
call it.
CONRAD. You see, she hasnt time to find out what life really means. She
has to die before she knows.
HASLAM [_agreeably_] Thats it.
FRANKLYN. She hasnt time to form a well-instructed conscience.
HASLAM [_still more cheerfully_] Quite.
FRANKLYN. It goes deeper. She hasnt time to form a genuine conscience
at all. Some romantic points of honor and a few conventions. A world
without conscience: that is the horror of our condition.


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