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 —That's right! That's right! There's only one thing I want to impress upon you. No scandal.

—He'd never make a scandal.

—And you have no business going to his house after this. When you leave here to-day there is only one place for you to go: your mother's house.

—Now, dear, you're getting excited again.

—How can you expect me to be calm? I stand at the turning point of my life. And I'm subject to heart attacks. It runs in our family. I have to be very careful And yet, my God [stops his work] when I think that to-night this ordinary spring night this commonplace Thursday evening you are to be mine  definitely and forever mine  body and soul Come here!

—Be careful.

—Come here, come here!

—[Goes to him.] There now, you are getting all excited again.

—Only your hand, your hand for a moment.

—But Oscar!

—Your hand! You know I've got heart trouble! [''She gives him her hand. He takes it, looks cautiously through the archway, then speaks, softly but passionately.''] Mine! My own wife!