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THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET

Why do you speak to me as though I were a boy? I’d give half my inheritance if

Well?

It’s unbearable how small I feel beside you!

[Pause]

[Turning round]

What is your name?

I beg your pardon?

What is your name?

Gregor.

The rest?

MacGregor.

But your first name, idiot?

Albert.

Your mother calls you Berti, doesn’t she?