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BRANDT.<br />

You'll get over it; that is only <strong>in</strong> the beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g.<br />

HANNE (irritated).<br />

But I have absolutely no desire to play a married woman.<br />

BRANDT.<br />

Come now. (To ADOLF, who <strong>in</strong> the meanwhile has kept at a distance.) Dear friend,<br />

allow me to present to you my wife.<br />

(approaches respectfully).<br />

ADOLF<br />

If I dare hope to be considered less foreign to you <strong>in</strong> the role of your cous<strong>in</strong> . . . . (Aside.)<br />

Oh, how pretty and charm<strong>in</strong>g she is!<br />

BRANDT.<br />

It is true, you are her cous<strong>in</strong>. So you must be looked on as an old friend around here.<br />

ADOLF.<br />

I now realize for the first time how fortunate it is for me that the disagreement which has<br />

existed formerly between our families has at last been discarded.<br />

You must answer him.<br />

BRANDT (aside to HANNE).<br />

HANNE (aside).<br />

Oh God, what shall I answer? I can hardly collect my thoughts.<br />

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