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THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET

Well, I came to listen a little while behind the stage, but you know I just tremble all over when she sings.

I tell you this, Kudrana, I just cries. I listened, and all at once I wondered what was running down my cheeks, and there I was, crying.

[Getting up]

Do you want to see someone?

Isn’t Mademoiselle Marty here? They told me at the hotel she’d gone to the theater.

She’s with the manager now, but she’ll be back here. She left her things in her dressing room.

Good. I’ll wait.

[He steps aside]

That’s the fifth one. There’s a whole string of ’em waiting for her.