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COL. SELBY
I did run away from him.
LAURA
Indeed?
COL. SELBY
If I had remained, we should have fought.
LAURA
Well, since when have military Gentlemen been so adverse to fighting?
COL. SELBY
Since military Gentlemen have become in nature like other Gentlemen. Clay is your Brother.
LAURA
Well he is, I believe, a Gentleman.
COL. SELBY
A Gentleman, undoubtedly; but if we had fought, people would have asked why.
LAURA
True.
COL. SELBY
And if their questions had produced no information, they would have indulged in surmises.
LAURA
I am to understand then that in running away you performed a magnanimous act?
COL. SELBY
It was an act that saved your honor at some sacrifice to my own.
LAURA
You were very considerate. I ought to feel grateful. I would, perhaps—if—
COL. SELBY
If what?
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