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Page 62
Treachery?
QUEX.
You know I am under a bond of good behaviour to my old aunt and to the
Edens.
DUCHESS.
[_With a slight shrug of the shoulders._] Really?
QUEX.
Yes. [_Clenching his teeth._] And this is how I observe it. After all my
resolutions, this--this is how I observe it.
[_He rises and paces up and down the room._
DUCHESS.
[_Fretfully._] I am bound to remark that your present behaviour appears
quite unimpeachable.
QUEX.
Unimpeachable! here--alone--in your company!
DUCHESS.
[_Covering her eyes with her hand._] Oh, cruel, cruel!
QUEX.
[_Pausing._] Cruel--?
DUCHESS.
[_With heaving bosom._] But there! if you deny me the possession of real
feeling, why should you hesitate to rain blows on me?
QUEX.
[_Softening, coming to her._] My dear Sidonia, I don't--I don't mean
to--
DUCHESS.
[_Rising, and grasping his hands._] Oh, Harry!
QUEX.
Tsch! please! [_He releases himself and she sinks back upon the settee,
her eyes closed. He regards her uncomfortably for a moment; then, with
some hesitation, he produces from his coat-tail pocket a small box
covered with a pretty brocade, with which he toys uneasily._] You
expressed a wish to leave here on Friday with a sensation of despair at
your heart, Sidonia. If your feeling about our parting is really a deep
one, heaven knows I have no desire to make it more acute--
DUCHESS.
[_Partly opening her eyes._] What is in that box, Harry?
QUEX.
That is just what I was about to--to--[_Lifting the lid and closing
it._] These are the little souvenirs which have passed from you to me at
odd times.
DUCHESS.
[_With reviving interest._] Ah, yes.
QUEX.
I have had no other opportunity--[_Looking about him awkwardly for a
place to deposit the box._] Will you--? shall I--? what the devil's to
become of 'em?
DUCHESS.
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