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THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET

And—and excuse me, but you are Eugenie Montez?

I was, Max; I was. But then I was only two hundred and ninety years old; and I was also Ekatorina Myskina, and Elsa Muller and all the others. [Turning to the others] One cannot live with you more than thirty years at a time.

Especially not a singer.

I should think not!

And you lived, if I may ask, in the eighteenth century?

Of course.

You knew—Danton personally?

I knew him. He was a disgusting man.

And how did you know what was in Pepi’s will?

Because Pepi told me before he put it there so I could tell that stupid fool—Ferdi Gregor.