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THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET

I’ve seen that girl somewhere.

[Closing the door]

Mademoiselle Marty, this is a great honor.

Not at all. So you are the lawyer?

At your service.

And you represent this Mr. Gregor?

Why, of course.

In the case concerning the inheritance of Pepi Prus.

That is, of Baron Joseph Ferdinand Prus, deceased eighteen hundred and twenty-seven.

What! Is he dead?

I’m sorry to say, almost a hundred years ago.

Oh, the poor thing. I didn’t know that.