AUGUSTA. Minnie, I'm willing to say that I was mistaken about you. You
may have been unwise, but you never did anything wrong. Isn't it so?
MINNIE. Why do you think that now? What changed you? Just because I
might have helped to keep Mr. Pindar from being shot by a crazy man--that
didn't change you, did it?
AUGUSTA. I was mistaken!
MINNIE. If you thought I was bad yesterday, I'm bad today.
AUGUSTA. A bad woman couldn't have done what you did just now.
MINNIE. Don't you believe it, Mrs. Pindar. I knew a woman in Newcastle
--but there's no use going into that, I guess. There's worse kinds of
badness than what you call bad.
AUGUSTA. I--I can't discuss it. But I want to be just. I'm convinced
that I did you a wrong--and I'm sorry. Won't you believe me?
MINNIE. But you'll never forgive me--even if I hadn't done what you
thought--on account of what happened with George.
AUGUSTA. I--I'll try.
MINNIE. No, don't try--forgiveness doesn't come that way, Mrs. Pindar.
(With sudden acuteness.) It was on account of George, not Dr. Jonathan,
that you wanted to get me out of Foxon Falls.
AUGUSTA. I repeat--I shouldn't have asked you to go. Isn't that enough?
MINNIE. I told you not to worry about me and George.
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