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THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET [She starts and gets up]

What?

Eugenie. I—I knew her—lady—it is—it is fifty years ago.

[Trying to cover her confusion]

Who is this great fool?

Hauk-Sendorf.

[To herself]

Hauk-Sendorf—Max? [She descends from the throne] Oh, yes, won’t you get up?

[Rising]

May I—may I call you Eugenie?

[In the kind tone one uses to children]

You may call me anything you like. So I look like her?

Look like her? Dear lady, yesterday—yesterday in the theater I thought—I thought that it was she—my Eugenie—the voice—the eyes—she used to be so beautiful—Good God! And the forehead—it startled me. [He pauses and stands back to look at her] But you are taller.