THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET
act ii
Janek
[On the throne beside her]
Who?
Kristina
She—Marty.
Janek
Marty? Of course.
Kristina
You know, I don’t understand. Why does she have to love someone when she’s so great and famous? You don’t know what it is when a woman loves. It is so degrading!
Janek
It is not!
Kristina
You don’t know anything about it! A woman doesn’t think of herself any more. She follows him like a slave. She can’t belong to herself. Oh, I could beat myself sometimes.
Janek
But
Kristina
And then everybody’s crazy about Marty—everyone she looks at. But it doesn’t mean anything to her.
Janek
Not everyone.
Kristina
I’m afraid of her.
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