THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET
act iii
Hauk-Sendorf
And—and excuse me, but you are Eugenie Montez?
Emilia
I was, Max; I was. But then I was only two hundred and ninety years old; and I was also Ekatorina Myskina, and Elsa Muller and all the others. [Turning to the others] One cannot live with you more than thirty years at a time.
Kolonaty
Especially not a singer.
Emilia
I should think not!
Vitek
And you lived, if I may ask, in the eighteenth century?
Emilia
Of course.
Vitek
You knew—Danton personally?
Emilia
I knew him. He was a disgusting man.
Prus
And how did you know what was in Pepi’s will?
Emilia
Because Pepi told me before he put it there so I could tell that stupid fool—Ferdi Gregor.
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