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THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET

No. Your singing hurts me. It is too perfect. And, at the same time

Well?

You seem bored when you sing. It is superhuman. It carries one away. But you remain cold—as if you were frozen.

Did you feel that way? Perhaps you are right. Well, I’ve sent the document to your old fool of a lawyer—the one about Ellian. How is the case getting on?

I don’t know. I don’t care about the case.

But you’re already buying ridiculous things of the jewelers. You idiot! Take it back, right away—how did you manage to get it?

It’s no business of yours.

You borrowed, didn’t you? You spent the whole forenoon running from one money lender