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What does he want?

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He wants you to help him to open a casket that has snapped to.

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Can I help him in that?

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He says you are the only person that can.

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Then I must try.

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Yes, you really must, madam.

[She goes down by the path to the hotel.

[In a little while comes down to, but stops with the brook between them.

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[After a short pause.] She—the other one—said that you had been waiting for me.

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I have waited for you year after year—without myself knowing it.