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My poor Bertha! Sit down. Come.

[After a short pause.] Has it passed?

Yes. It was only a moment. I was very silly. I was afraid that I wanted to see you near me.

That that you made me promise not to think of?

Yes.

[Keenly.] Or something else?

[Helplessly.] Robert, I feared something. I am not sure what.

And now?

Now you are here. I can see you. Now it has passed.

[With resignation.] Passed. Yes. Love's labour lost.

[Looks up at him.] Listen, Robert. I want to explain to you about that. I could not deceive Dick. Never. In nothing. I told him everything—from the