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THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET

Will you comb my hair?

[She sits down at the dressing table]

[Letting down Emilia’s hair]

Lord! How frightened I was. The porter came running to me and said that there was a servant here and that he had to see you. He was white as a sheet, that man. He couldn’t even speak. It was as if something had hit him. Something must have happened, Madam.

[Petulantly]

Take care, you’re hurting me.

Baron Prus is a great man, isn’t he? I’d like to know what’s happened. If you saw, Madam, how that servant trembled!

[Not at all interested]

Will you have some breakfast cooked for me?

And he had a letter or something in his hand. Shouldn’t I go and see what it is?

[Emilia yawns]

What time is it?