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THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET

Thank you.

[Prus starts to leave]

Wait a moment. What would you sell that sealed envelope to me for?

[Turning round] Pardon?

I’ll buy those letters. I’ll give you as much as you want.

I beg your pardon, I cannot consider it here—and with you. Will you please send somebody else to me?

Why?

So that I may kick him downstairs.

[After a while]

Is it you, Berti?

Why do you keep your eyes closed? You look as if you were suffering. What is the matter?