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Julie

He didn't take it.


Mother Hollunder

No one else was in there.


Julie

What would Liliom want with a kitchen knife?


Mother Hollunder

He'd sell it and spend the money on drink.


Julie

It just so happens—see how unjust you are to him—it just so happens that I went through all of Liliom's pockets just now—I wanted to see if he had any money on him. But he had nothing but a pack of cards.


Mother Hollunder

[Returns to the kitchen, grumbling.] Cards in his pocket—cards! The fine gentlemen have evidently gone off to their club to play a little game. [She exits. After a pause Marie, happy and beaming, appears in the doorway at back, and enters, followed by Wolf.]