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Cæsar's Wife: A Comedy in Three Acts
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2017
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Anne
Why? I'm frightfully tired. I think I shall go to bed.
Arthur
No, do this for me, Anne. I want to give them their chance. It may be the last chance for all of us.
Anne
[With a little sigh.] Very well, I'll do even that for you.
Arthur
You are a good friend, and I'm a selfish beast.
Anne
I wish you could have a child, Arthur. That might settle everything.
Arthur
That is what I look forward to with all my heart. I think she might love her baby's father.
Anne
Then she'll realise that only you could have been so tolerant and so immensely patient. When she looks back she'll be filled with gratitude.
[Ronny and Violet come in.]
Violet
I've told the band they can go.
Arthur
I don't suppose they wanted telling twice. Did you have a pleasant dance?
Violet
I was very tired.
Ronny
It was brutal of me to make you dance so long. I'll say good-night before I'm turned out.
Arthur
Oh, won't you sit down and have a cigarette before you go? Anne and I were just going to stroll to the end of the garden to have a look at the Nile.
Violet
Oh.
Anne
I'm too restless to go to bed just yet.
[Arthur and Anne go out. Violet and Ronny do not speak for a moment. At first the conversation is quite light.]
Violet
What was it that Christina was referring to just now? Had it anything to do with you?
Ronny
I don't think I'm justified in telling you about it. If Sir Arthur thinks you should know I daresay he'd rather tell you himself.
Violet
Of course you mustn't tell me if it's a secret.
Ronny
I'd almost forgotten what a beautiful dancer you were.
Violet
[With a smile.] So soon?
Ronny
You haven't given me much chance of dancing with you during the last few weeks.
Violet
I hear there's a girl at the Ghezireh Palace who dances very well. Miss Pender, isn't that her name?
Ronny
Yes, she's wonderful.
Violet
I'm told she's charming.
Ronny
Very.
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