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Rh [Kissing him.] Good-bye, Dr. Hoffmann! Good- bye, Freda! You dearest, dearest girl! It will be all right. You'll see it will. Good-bye, everybody! [She is at the door, about to go out, when a military band, playing a patriotic tune, is heard passing through the square with soldiers marching to it, and singing as they march.

[ ''stands listening—her face is quivering with passion. As the playing and singing are dying down, she sweeps round to the piano and bangs out the tune of "Deutschland über Alles."''  [Terrified.] Margaret! Margaret! [ stops on a broken bar, rises, steps to door, and as the singing dies off she recites in a wild, fierce, mocking, defiant voice.

 " French and Russian, they matter not, A blow for a blow, and a shot for a shot. We love them not, we hate them not, We love as one, we hate as one, We have one foe, and one alone— England!"

[''Laughs wildly and goes out, clashing the door behind her. The others stand dazed. The military band dies away in the distance.''

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