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HELEN. I came home and gave Helen her letters.
DONOHUE. And that's all?
HELEN. That's all.
DONOHUE. Why did you do this?
HELEN. She's Billy's sister.
DONOHUE. My compliments, young woman. That was beautifully done. And she
looks so innocent too.
WILLIAM (C). You don't believe--
DONOHUE. Not a word of it. Not one word.
ROSALIE. And why not?
DONOHUE. That I _don't_ is sufficient. Her story is preposterous. Your
daughter's--
WILLIAM. It is the truth.
DONOHUE. Do you expect me to believe for a minute that a man like Lee
would threaten your daughter, and then when a total stranger comes to
him and asks for the letters, give them up without a word? Why, no jury
in the world would believe your story.
WILLIAM. Jury? You're not going to arrest her?
DONOHUE. She is arrested.
ROSALIE. You 'ave not proof.
DONOHUE (_below table_ R.). All the proof that I need. If she was
innocent, why didn't she tell me all this when I first questioned her?
Why did she wait until she knew that I had proof--that she had been in
Spencer Lee's rooms?
WILLIAM. She was protecting my sister.
DONOHUE. Women don't hang together like that.
ROSALIE (_upper end of table_ R.). Oh, they do, they do! The poor
creatures!
DONOHUE (_down_ R.). They do not. I know them. (_He turns to_ WILLIAM.
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