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enough.... (_Pause_) Do you want another cup of tea? IRENE No, thanks. No more now. (_Pause; it is growing darker_) He has a child, and I have never known it! (_Protracted silence_) VALET (_enters_) JULIAN What is it? VALET Lieutenant Wegrat asks if you are at home, sir? JULIAN Certainly. Ask him in. VALET (_goes out after having turned on the light_) IRENE Young Wegrat?--I thought he had already left again.--The poor chap! He seemed utterly stunned. JULIAN I can imagine. IRENE You visited him at Salzburg? JULIAN Yes, I happened to be there a couple of days last August. FELIX (_enters, dressed as a civilian_) Good evening.--Good evening, Miss Herms. IRENE Good evening, Lieutenant. JULIAN My dear Felix--I was going to call on you--this very evening. It's extremely nice of you to take the trouble. FELIX I have to be off again the day after to-morrow, and so I wasn't sure whether I could find any chance at all to see you. JULIAN Won't you take off your coat?--Think of it, I didn't have the slightest idea.... It was Sala who told me--less than an hour ago. [_Irene is looking from one to the other._ FELIX We didn't dream of this when we took that walk in the Mirabell Gardens[4] last summer. [4] The palace of Mirabell is one of the sights of Salzburg, the city near the Bavarian border, where Felix's regiment was stationed. It is now used as a museum. The gardens adjoining it are of the formal type so dear to, and so characteristic of, the eighteenth century. JULIAN Was it very sudden? FELIX Yes. And I, who couldn't be with her.... Late that evening I had to leave, and she died during the night. IRENE Say rather that she didn't wake up again next morning. FELIX We owe a lot of thanks to you, Miss Herms. IRENE Oh, please...! FELIX It always gave my mother so much pleasure to have you with her, chatting, or playing the piano to her. IRENE Oh, don't mention my playing...! [_A clock strikes._ IRENE Is it that late? Then I have to go. JULIAN What's the hurry, Miss Herms? IRENE I'm going to the opera. I have to make good use of the few days I shall still be here. FELIX Shall we see you at our house again, Miss Herms? IRENE Certainly.--You'll have to leave before me, won't you? FELIX Yes, my furlough will be up.... IRENE (_as if en passant_) How l
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