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Page 47
DUCHESS.
[_Rising._] Harry, I want to see you sipping that brand of champagne
once more, while you and I sit facing one another, silently, dreamily
smoking Argyropulos.
QUEX.
[_Negatively_.] Duchess--
DUCHESS.
To end as we began! you have not the heart to refuse?
QUEX.
I--
DUCHESS.
You do refuse?
QUEX.
I do.
[_She passes him, and again sinks upon the bench._
DUCHESS.
[_Her back towards him, her shoulders heaving._] Oh! oh!
QUEX.
I--I am profoundly sorry to be obliged to speak to you in this fashion.
DUCHESS.
Oh, then I cannot go on Friday!
QUEX.
Not!
DUCHESS.
No! no! no!
QUEX.
Believe me, it would be better for you, for me, for everybody--
DUCHESS.
I cannot! [_Producing a diminutive lace handkerchief._] In the first
shock of the news of your engagement--for it was a shock--one thought
consoled me; throughout the time that has elapsed since then I have fed
upon this same thought--there will be a parting in keeping with our
great attachment! And now, you would rob me even of that!
QUEX.
But--but--but--a solemn, deliberate leave-taking! the ceremony, of all
others, to be carefully avoided!
DUCHESS.
Not by me, Harry--not by me. I wish to carry, in my breast, from this
house the numb despair of a piteous climax. I cannot drive away smugly
from these gates with the simple feelings of a woman who has been paying
a mere visit--I cannot!
QUEX.
My dear Sidonia--!
DUCHESS.
[_Decidedly._] I say I cannot!
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