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 see beautiful places wear fine clothes  enjoy the leisure and luxury that only rich folks can have I have thought about such things  and longed for them so fiercely  that it makes me cold and sick  only to think that I may not have them Oh, it's so difficult to tell you, Mr. Juhasz! My heart is so heavy!

—Do you love the count?

—No.

—Tell me the truth You can tell me now.

—He isn't a man to me at all. He is only the door that leads into a new life He is rich, Mr. Juhasz, rich, rich[Hides her face in shame on his shoulder.]

—[Half dazed.] Come with me and I will be rich, too I will work for you, Paula, as no man ever worked before There are people who will help me I will be ambitious, grasping until I have all the money you want

—[Still has her face buried in his shoulder.] And by the time you had made your money I should be too old to want it.

—[Bitterly.] After all, you are right, Paula. I am absurd. Another man would offer to lay down his life for the woman he loved I offer to open an account in a savings bank. [''She raises her head. There is a knock at the door.'']