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Let us enter ! [On the threshold, to .] If Christian comes, as I feel sure he will, bid him wait for me !

Listen !

What mean you to question him on, as is your wont, to-night ?

Oh -

Well, say.

But you will be mute ?

Mute as a fish.

I shall not question him at all, but say : Give rein to your fancy ! Prepare not your speeches, - but speak the thoughts as they come ! Speak to me of love, and speak splendidly !

Very good !

But secret ! . ..