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[With eager expectation.] Are you going up there?

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Have you the courage to meet me once again?

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[Struggling with himself, uncertainly.] If we could—oh, if only we could!

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Why can we not do what we will? [''Looks at him and whispers beseechingly with folded hands''.] Come, come, Arnold! Oh, come up to me!

[ ''enters, glowing with pleasure, from behind the hotel, and goes quickly up to the table where they were previously sitting.'']

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[''Still at the corner of the hotel, without looking around''.] Oh, you may say what you please, Rubek, but—[Stops, as she catches sight of ]—Oh, I beg your pardon—I see you have made an acquaintance.

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[Curtly.] Renewed an acquaintance. [Rises.] What was it you wanted with me?