Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACT II Time brings before our eyes a different scene. Rh Janeiro lies, with glittering sheen, Far in the night's background: One house is near. A man and woman presently appear:? ." Florence, I have decided we must leave Rio Janeiro, and I'm so grieved about two things, that I can't tell for which I grieve the most. I'm sorry I can't pay the mortgage interest on our home, and that the whole affair will have to be foreclosed; and yet this weighs but lightly on my mind when I think you are called upon to bear the crushing disappointment too. Of course, the heaviest must naturally fall on me, but as just said, I have the added weight of thinking you are groaning 'neath the burden just as much as I, who suffer terribly, but please don't let my suffering make you suffer, dear; for mine is mainly caused by thinking of your suffering for me. So, dearest heart, be happy in the happiness of thinking I am happy by your happiness. Now leave me with my thoughts, for when my eye of sense is blinded by the night, I can see cle'arer mentally, and may discover some way out of our entanglement.?Are you not going, dear??Please do not cling to me like this! I wish to be alone.?Good-night, my darling!?Now, dear, this kiss must be our last.?Please, Florence, I wish you would leave!?I must use force if you refuseto go.?See now what you have done! you've wrung your hand in mine so much that you have worked your wedding ring from off your finger, and it's fallen on the ground.?No, no, don't poke around for it there in the sand. You'll only bury it. Just step aside and wait till daylight comes. Now you must leave. Again, Good-night!" The woman leaves, and he calls after her,? " I will be with you, dear, in half an hour, at least." And then he adds,? " I said ' in half an hour-at least'; now I...