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fighting with death, – and that she longs for it! That
was the most desightful part of it, I saw the longing in
her eyes, elghts when I sat by her bed and read to her,
(A long pause)
I have given up the house.
Haus.
Oh, you have? Well, it is really too large for you alone.
Hein.
Yes, and anyhow, I could never write another line in it.
I should hear night after night from the room next to mine,
the moans that used to cut into my heart, and destroy every
facilty, every wish to create, even the very desire to
live. Oh, my God!
(Long pause)
Did you know what Doctor Heuffer said to me the Sunday
before she died?
Haus.
What?
Hein.
That she might live two or three years longer.
Haus.
(Almost beside himself)
Two or three years?
(Controlling himself, more quietly)
That is might live the or three years longer?