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The Magistrate
Your obstinacy won't help you. Here patience is endless as time. We can wait.
Liliom
Can I ask something—I'd like to know—if Your Honor will tell me—whether the baby will be a boy or a girl.
The Magistrate
You shall see that for yourself.
Liliom
[Excitedly.] I'll see the baby?
The Magistrate
When you do it won't be a baby any more. But we haven't reached that question yet.
Liliom
I'll see it?
The Magistrate
Again I ask you: Do you not regret that you deserted your wife and child; that you were a bad husband, a bad father?
Liliom
A bad husband?
The Magistrate
Yes.
