(Opens letter feverishly) Damnation, I must be going there at
once.
SCENE XIV.
Jozwowicz. Mrs. Czeska.
Czeska (enters swiftly).--Doctor, I am looking for you.
Doctor.--What has happened?
Czeska.--Stella is ill. I found her weeping.
Doctor (aside.)--Poor child! (Aloud) I will go to see her at once.
(They go out.)
END OF ACT III.
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ACT IV.
The same Drawing Room.
SCENE I.
Jozwowicz. Drahomir.
(Jozwowicz sits at table writing in notebook. Drahomir enters.)
Drahomir.--Doctor, I came to bid you farewell.
Doctor (rising suddenly).--Ah, you are going away?
Drahomir.--Yes.
Doctor.--So suddenly? For long?
Drahomir.--I am returning to-day to Swietlenice, to George; to-morrow
I leave for Paris.
Doctor.--One word--have you said anything to any one of your plans?
Drahomir.--Not yet. I only made up my mind an hour ago.
Doctor.--Then Mr. Pretwic knows nothing about it as yet?
Drahomir.--No; but why do you ask?
Doctor (aside).--I must act now--otherwise everything is lost. (Aloud)
Count, I have not much time to speak to you now, because in a moment I
expect Anton in regard to a matter on which my whole future depends.
Listen to me. I beseech you, for the sake of the peace and health
of the princess, not to mention to any one that you are going away.
Neither to the Prince nor to Mr.
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