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THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET

What?

[With a gay bravado]

Yes, I was the mistress of Pepi Prus. Gregor’s our son.

And Ellian MacGregor?

That is I.

Are you raving?

I am your great-grandmother, or something like that. Ferdi was my boy. Do you understand?

Which Ferdi?

Ferdinand Gregor, but he is in the birth-record as Ferdinand Makropoulos because—well, there I gave his real name.

And when were you born?

[Raising her arms]

Fifteen hundred and eighty-five. Christos Soter! Leave me in peace.