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THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET

Then why are you?

Why am I carrying on this case for you? Why? Because I inherited you, my friend. You, Vitek, and that desk over there. What do you expect? Gregor vs. Prus is a family inheritance—like a disease. And it doesn’t cost you a cent.

You’ll get paid after I win the case.

Oh, yes, how nice that will be.

You think, then, we will lose?

Of course.

[Crushed for the moment]

All right.

Well, you don’t have to shoot yourself yet.

Papa!

[Mastering himself]

Oh, no. Tonight I am going to the theater to see you, Miss Kristina.