THE CLIMBERS



speak of his father in Richard's presence. And

this I will do. [With great conviction he rises.]

I know I am at the cross-roads, and I know the

way; but I don't choose it for your reasons; I

choose for my own reason - which is that, unfit as

I am, I love you.

  [He speaks deliberately and with real feeling,

    bending over her.

  BLANCHE. I tell you truly my love for you is

gone for good.

  STERLING. I'll win it back - you did love me,

you did, didn't you, Blanche

  BLANCHE. I loved the man I thought you were.

Do you remember that day in the mountains when

we first really came to know each other, when we

walked many, many miles without dreaming of

being tired 

  STERLING. And found ourselves at sunset at the



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