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THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET

We can fix it up ourselves.

[To Hauk-Sendorf]

Max, will you permit it? And you are a gentleman!

Cielo de mi. What am I to do?

[To Hauk-Sendorf]

Baa, you are old. [To Prus] Baron Prus, you are a gentleman, at least. You cannot permit

I ask you not to speak to me.

[Sobbing]

It is terrible, what you are doing to her. Let her alone.

That is what I say, too, Kristina. What we are doing is unfair—cruel.

There, Madam. You’re carrying a whole archive with you.

[He goes into the bedroom]