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HELEN
You must say truly a hundred times.
LOTH
Truly and truly and truthfully.
HELEN
Oh, now, you're not playing fair!
LOTH
I am, though. That truthfully is equal to a hundred trulys.
HELEN
Oh? Is that the custom in Berlin?
LOTH
No, but it is here in Witzdorf.
HELEN
Oh! But now, look at my little finger and don't laugh.
LOTH
Gladly.
HELEN
Did you ever love any one before your first betrothed? Oh, now you _are_ laughing!
LOTH
I will tell you in all seriousness, dearest; indeed, I think it is my duty.... In the course of my life a considerable number of women....
HELEN
[_With a quick and violent start, pressing her hand over his mouth._] For the love of.... Tell me that some day, later, when we are old, when the years have pa.s.sed, when I shall say to you: "now!" Do you hear! Not before!
LOTH
Just as you will.
HELEN
Rather tell me something sweet now!... Listen: repeat after me:
LOTH
What?
HELEN
I have loved--
LOTH
I have loved--
HELEN
Always you only--
LOTH
Always you only--
HELEN
All the days of my life--
LOTH
All the days of my life--
HELEN
And will love you only as long as I live--
LOTH
And will love you only as long as I live--and that is true so surely as I am an honest man.
HELEN
[_Joyfully._] I didn't add that!
LOTH
But I did.
[_They kiss each other._
HELEN
