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Do not tease me any longer. You know why I have kept this portrait.<br />

No, I don't.<br />

LOUISE.<br />

ADOLF.<br />

Well, then let me tell you straightforwardly. I came here today with the <strong>in</strong>tention of . . .<br />

well of pay<strong>in</strong>g court to your sister, if she corresponded to the impression I had of her.<br />

To my sister! To a married woman!<br />

LOUISE.<br />

ADOLF.<br />

I did not dream that she was married. I did not know either of my two pretty cous<strong>in</strong>s, and<br />

that must be my excuse, and also that I did not earlier form an impression of your charm<br />

as of hers. But I expected to see a picture of my aunt rejuvenated; and your sister<br />

undoubtedly resembles her more than you do.<br />

LOUISE (aside).<br />

Good night, va<strong>in</strong> imag<strong>in</strong>ation! (Aloud.) Yes, that is a very unpleasant circumstance.<br />

What do you have <strong>in</strong> m<strong>in</strong>d now, poor cous<strong>in</strong>?<br />

ADOLF.<br />

My friend's wife is sacred to me; that goes without say<strong>in</strong>g. But I have decided that I shall<br />

not despair. Possibly there is still a consolation here for me, a consolation which can<br />

conta<strong>in</strong> greater happ<strong>in</strong>ess than I myself imag<strong>in</strong>e.<br />

(Here HANNE approaches from the walk which goes beh<strong>in</strong>d the shrubbery.)<br />

LOUISE.<br />

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