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THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET

Will you love me?

Never. Do you understand? Never.

[Collapsing at her feet]

I will kill you, Emilia.

Nonsense! I could say four words to you and it would all be over. Look! Look! [She rises] You’d like to kill me. Do you see the scar on my shoulder? [She bares her shoulder] Another one wanted to kill me. Am I made only for your killing?

I love you.

Then kill yourself, you fool! But what will it come to? Your love? Oh, if you knew. If you knew how funny you are, you child. [Her voice drops] If you knew how tired I am. If you knew how it’s all the same to me. Oh, if you knew!

[She falls back in the throne]

What is the matter with you?

Unhappy Ellina!