AUGUSTA. I hope the discovery may be valuable. It seems to me that
there is too much science in these days and too little religion. I've
never denied that the girl is clever.
DR. JONATHAN. But you would deny her the opportunity to make something
of her cleverness because in your opinion; she has broken the Seventh
Commandment. Is that it?
AUGUSTA. I can't listen to you when you talk in this way.
DR. JONATHAN. But you listen every Sunday to Moses--if it was Moses?
--when he talks in this way. You have made up your mind, haven't you, that
Minnie has broken the Commandment?
AUGUSTA. I'm not a fool, Jonathan.
DR. JONATHAN. You are what is called a good woman. Have you proof that
Minnie is what you would call a bad one?
AUGUSTA. Has she ever denied it? And you heard her when she stood up in
this room and spoke of her life in Newcastle.
DR. JONATHAN. But no court of law would convict her on that.
AUGUSTA. And she had an affair with George. Oh, I can't talk about it!
DR. JONATHAN. I'm afraid that George will wish to talk about it, when he
comes back.
AUGUSTA, She's been corresponding with George--scheming behind my back.
DR. JONATHAN. Are you sure of that?
AUGUSTA. She confessed to me that she had had letters from him.
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