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 —Tell me isn't this Juhasz in love with you?

—[In honest amazement.] How can you say such a thing? It is nothing but his goodness, his exaggerated sense of gratitude. He thinks he owes me his aid and his protection because I followed him here into exile.

—I'll exile him for good this time. Wait and see.

—You won't be unkind to him please don't be.

—Don't worry I'll be absolutely just with him. I'll simply confront him with the case of this fellow Mate whom he can't bring himself to dismiss. And I'll say to him, "Now, it's Mate or you."

And as it is perfectly certain that he will never be able to harden his heart to the point of dismissing anyone, he'll have no alternative but to go himself. And then [ardently] my happiness begins  and yours, Paula  for you are my last love  and last love is like the setting sun  full of fire and gold [''He approaches her ardently. enters at left, a big book under his arm.'']

—The swine aren't entered in the books.

—Oh! There's a limit to everything! [Goes to the door at left, calling angrily.] Mr. Santha! Didn't I say I was not to be disturbed