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Then I really can't understand

I may as well tell you, Vilhelm

Well?

There was—in fact, there was a woman in the case.

A woman in the case? Well but, John Gabriel

[Interrupting.] Well, well—let us say no more of these stupid old stories. After all, neither of us got into the Cabinet, neither he nor I.

But he rose high in the world.

And I fell into the abyss.

Oh, it's a terrible tragedy

[Nodding to him.] Almost as terrible as yours, I fancy, when I come to think of it.