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 —To be near the Count.

—In Heaven's name! [Clasps his hands in horror.] When did you decide that?

—Just now This very minute. [She is greatly excited.] Are you surprised? For a whole year that Mrs. Juhasz has plagued me You saw her She treated me like a dog Tried her best to drive me away. And why do you suppose I was so patient? Why did I never answer back?

—Miss Paula!

—[Still more vehemently.] What did I endure it for? [Points to the door.] For my future, Mr. Philip, for my future who just passed through that door  and rode off in his motor car. But I mean to follow him, Mr. Philip. Make no mistake about that. That old man has been staring at me for a year ogling me and I have been  slowly and carefully  playing my game You needn't look so horrified, Mr. Philip  a filthy little intrigue isn't what I was after  no  here I have sat  sighing away my youth  among a lot of motor coats bound for Paris and Ostend  pretty travelling veils soon to be worn in London  and Monte Carlo  out in the great, glittering world I want to live, too, Mr. Philip, to live, to live And now shall I give up all hope simply