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[Looks innocently at him.] My dear Rubek—is it worth while to make all this fuss and commotion about so simple a matter?

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Do you think this matter is so absolutely simple?

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Yes, certainly I think so. Do you attach yourself to whoever you most require. [''Nods to him.''] I shall always manage to find a place for myself.

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Where do you mean?

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[Unconcerned, evasively.] Well—I need only take myself off to the villa, if it should be necessary. But it won't be; for in town—in all that great house of ours—there must surely, with a little good will, be room enough for three.

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[Uncertainly.] And do you think that would work in the long run?

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[In a light tone.] Very well, then—if it won't work, it won't. It is no good talking about it.