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. The same time? I think of you all the time.

. I have time for nothing else.

. Does it take those children forever to say goodby? Emilia!

. Coming, mamma.

. Aren't you going to the theatre? What is the matter? A lovers' quarrel?

. No, mamma. I suppose you think I have nothing to do but run after Emilia? She has gone to the theatre with her cousins this evening. I have met them, but only casually.

. Yes, you must seem insignificant enough to them, just as you do to her mother.

. That may be, mamma; I ask no questions, it is nothing to me, anyhow. You are simply impossible.

. I can't even open my mouth. You always take offense.

. Julio! [A pause] Emilia's dress was lovely.

. She makes all her own clothes.

. Who ever heard of an unmarried woman who didn't make her own clothes? When she marries, something seems to happen; she immediately forgets how.

. Oh, mother! As a mother-in-law, you will be terrible!

. I suppose I am nothing more than a mother-in-law to you already. I am no longer your mother?

. No, mother, don't you say such things. The mother-in-law will stick out, though. When a mother once becomes a mother-in-law, she is a mother-in-law even to her own children.

. Emilia is such a sweet girl.