Her remaining here was
an affront to all right thinking people. I appealed to her, and she had
the decency to leave.
DR. JONATHAN. Decency is a mild word to apply to her sacrifice.
AUGUSTA. I suppose, with your extraordinary radical views, you mean that
she might have remained here and married George. One never can predict
the harm that a woman of that kind can do.
DR. JONATHAN (rising). The harm that a bad woman can do, Augusta,
is sometimes exceeded only by the harm a good woman can do. You are
unfortunately steeped in a religion which lacks the faith in humanity
that should be its foundation. The girl has just given you the strongest
proof of an inherent goodness, and you choose to call her bad. But if
you will not listen to Moses and the prophets, how will you listen to
Christ?
AUGUSTA. Jonathan! Where are you going?
DR. JONATHAN. To find Minnie Farrell and bring her back to Foxon Falls.
(He goes out, lower right. AUGUSTA sits for a while, motionless,
and then makes an attempt to go on with her knitting. A man's face
is seen pressed against the glass of the middle window. AUGUSTA
does not perceive him. He disappears, the glass door, upper right,
opens slowly and PRAG enters! His clothes are wet, he is unshaven,
he is gaunt and ill, and his eyed gleans.
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