TERENCE RATTIGAN: The Winslow Boy Remember to support your ideas with details from the text. Read this passage, and then answer the question that follows it: Sir Robert: Miss Winslow, might I be rude enough to ask you for a little of your excellent whisky? Catherine: Of course. [CATHERINE goes into the dining-room. SIR ROBERT, left alone, droops his shoulders wearily. He subsides into a chair. When CATHERINE enters with the whisky he straightens his shoulders instinctively but does not rise.] Sir Robert: That is very kind. Perhaps you would forgive me not getting up? The heat in that court-room was really so infernal. [He takes the glass from her and drains it quickly.] Catherine [noticing his hand is trembling slightly]: Are you feeling all right, Sir Robert? Sir Robert: Just a slight nervous reaction – that is all. Besides, I have not been feeling myself all day. I told the judge so this morning, if you remember, but I doubt if he believed me. He thought it was a trick. What suspicious minds people have, have they not? Catherine: Yes. Sir Robert [handing her back the glass]: Thank you. [CATHERINE puts the glass down. She turns slowly to face SIR ROBERT as if nerving herself for an ordeal.] Catherine: Sir Robert, I'm afraid I have a confession and an apology to make to you. Sir Robert [sensing what is coming]: My dear young lady-I am sure the one is rash and the other superfluous. I would far rather hear neither- Catherine [with a smile]: I am afraid you must. This is probably the last time I shall see you, and it is a better penance for me to say this than to write it. I have entirely misjudged your attitude to this case, and if in doing so I have ever seemed to you either rude or ungrateful, I am sincerely and humbly sorry. Sir Robert [indifferently]: My dear Miss Winslow, you have never seemed to me either rude or ungrateful. And my attitude to this case has been the same as yours-a determination to win at all costs. Only-when you talk of gratitude-you must remember that those costs were not mine but yours. Catherine: Weren't they yours also, Sir Robert? Sir Robert: I beg your pardon? Catherine: Haven't you, too, made a very special sacrifice for the case? Sir Robert [after a pause]: The robes of that office would not have suited me. Catherine: Wouldn't they? Sir Robert [with venom]: And what is more, I fully intend to report Curry to the Law Society. [He rises.] Catherine: Please don't. He did me a great service by telling me- Sir Robert: Well, I must ask you never to divulge it to another living soul, and even to forget it yourself. Catherine: I shall never divulge it. I'm afraid I can't promise to forget it myself. Sir Robert: Very well! If you choose to endow an unimportant incident with a romantic significance, you are perfectly at liberty to do so. I must go. [He offers his hand to CATHERINE.] Catherine: Why are you always at such pains to prevent people knowing the truth about you, Sir Robert? Sir Robert: Am I indeed? Catherine: You know you are. Why? Sir Robert: Perhaps because I do not know the truth about myself. Catherine: That is no answer. Sir Robert: My dear Miss Winslow, are you cross-examining me? [from Act 2] How does Rattigan make this a striking and revealing moment in the play?