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Hein.
Yes, And that was just when the worst came, She never
went out of her room again, never had another hour in the
garden she loved so well.
(Locks at the ampty reclining chair)
Haus.
Should I have made my mind to come in once in while, do you
think?
Hein.
(Rather ashamed)
Ah, my dear Herr Hausdorfer, here I am talking about myself
all the time, – yet I am young, with a future before
me, of some kind or other. But how much you have lost!
Haus
Very much, indeed,
Hein.
I know what my mother was to you, I always knew it, even
in those days,
Haus.
When?
Hein.
I was not such a very small child, when my father left us.
Haus.
Les, yes.
Hein.
I can remember the day when my mother told me "Papa has gone