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DE REVES (_solemnly and mournfully_): One moment, one moment ...
FAME: Well, out with it.
DE REVES: For ten years, divine lady, I have worshipped you, offering
all my songs ... I find ... I find I am not worthy....
FAME: Oh, you're all right.
DE REVES: No, no, I am not worthy. It cannot be. It cannot possibly be.
Others deserve you more. I must say it! _I cannot possibly love you._
Others are worthy. You will find others. But I, no, no, no. It cannot
be. It cannot be. Oh, pardon me, but it _must_ not.
[_Meanwhile_ FAME _has been lighting one of his cigarettes. She sits in
a comfortable chair, leans right back, and puts her feet right up on the
table amongst the poet's papers._
Oh, I fear I offend you. But--it cannot be.
FAME: Oh, that's all right, old bird; no offence. I ain't going to leave
you.
DE REVES: But--but--but--I do not understand.
FAME: I've come to stay, I have.
[_She blows a puff of smoke through her trumpet_.
CURTAIN.
[Transcriber's Note: Footnotes indicate where typographical errors in
the original edition have been corrected.]
[Footnote 1: Corrected from "eaxct"]
[Footnote 2: Corrected from "wouln't"]
[Footnote 3: Corrected from "MRS. SPLURGE"]
[Footnote 4: An unmatched parenthesis has been deleted]
[Footnote 5: Corrected from "Neek"]
[Footnote 6: Corrected from "Neek"]
[Footnote 7: Corrected from "scuptors"]
[Footnote 8: Corrected from "_Hamlet's_"]
[Footnote 9: Corrected from "Wouln't"]
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