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THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET

Your daughter was kind enough

My daughter will tell me herself, thank you. Come, Krista.

[He stalks off with Kristina]

[She speaks off-stage]

Thank you. Thank you, gentlemen. Please let me go. [''She enters and sweeps down the stage to the throne. Seeing Prus''] What, another one?

Oh, no, Mademoiselle Marty. I don’t dare to congratulate you. I came for something else.

But you were in the theater last night?

To be sure.

Well. [She sits on the throne] I don’t want to see anyone else. I’ve had enough of it. Is that your son?

Yes. Come here, Janek.

Come here, Janek, I want to see you. [He steps up shyly] You were in the theater last night?