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You begin to make me feel curious, Rubek.

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Only curious? Not a little bit uneasy.

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[Shaking her head.] Not in the least.

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Good. Then listen.—You said that day down at the Baths that it seemed to you I had become very nervous of late

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Yes, and you really have.

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And what do you think can be the reason of that?

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How can I tell? [Quickly.] Perhaps you have grown weary of this constant companionship with me.

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Constant—? Why not say "everlasting"?

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Daily companionship, then. Here have we two solitary people lived down there for four or five mortal years, and scarcely been an hour away from each other.—We two all by ourselves.