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 ''*chief. Shortly afterwards, slips cautiously and unnoticed out to the right.''

[Takes up the portfolio from the table by the sofa.] Is this your portfolio, Asta?

Yes. I have some of the old letters in it.

Ah, the family letters

You know you asked me to arrange them for you while you were away.

[Pats her on the head.] And you have actually found time to do that, dear?

Oh, yes. I have done it partly out here and partly at my own rooms in town.

Thanks, dear. Did you find anything particular in them?

[Lightly.] Oh, you know you always find something or other in such old papers. [''Speaking lower and seriously.''] It is the letters to mother that are in this portfolio.