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 —Yes. You can't stay here any longer. It is too dangerous for you.

—Dangerous! That's perfectly absurd.

—Haven't I seen and heard enough to know? All his advances! All his proposals! Have you ever seen a little bird fluttering helplessly about in a lion's cage?

—No.

—Neither have I. But I imagine it must be like you are here I am going to take you out of here, my child.

—That's awfully good of you, Mr. Juhasz, but

—Do you want to stay here?

—I see no reason why I shouldn't.

—I am the better judge of that. And I shan't let you stay.

—I appreciate your motives, Mr. Juhasz. But pardon me if I say you have no right to decide whether I may stay or go.

—No right? Didn't I bring you here into this danger?

—Perhaps I came of my own accord.

—I see. His insidious poison has begun to work on you already. Well, Paula, I won't have it that way. You have never seen me determined yet Perhaps I never was before But I