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WHY JESUS WEPT. 
SIR PERCY. 
 
You will.  You have written more than this. 
 
ANGELA. 
 
If I must — 
 
SIR PERCY. 
 
You must. 
 
ANGELA. 
 
Ah love !   (She yields herself up to him.  A long pause.) Learn my 
first lesson ; at these great moments of life, silence is the best.  
(Aside.) There is a more important one.  Had that silly gowk 
but the wit to lead him — “ à fin — where were I now ?  Not 
a drain on his stores, but a — Professor Spooner, in your next 
lecture warn the girls to go slow ; it is dangerous as well as 
cruel to leave a lover standing. 
 
SIR PERCY. 
 
Oh I have learnt that lesson and a thousand others. 
 
ANGELA. 
 
You must go now.  The moon — 
 
SIR PERCY. 
 
This love is not of the moon.  To-morrow — 
 
ANGELA. 
 
“ And to-morrow and to-morrow.”  Speak not that idle word !