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Won't you come to the rehearsal to-morrow--just once more--if you can spare the time?
AMADEUS
Would it please you...?
CECILIA
I always feel more certain of myself when you are within reach. You know that, don't you?
AMADEUS
Yes--I'll come. I'll call off my appointments with Neumann and the Countess.
CECILIA
If it isn't too great a sacrifice....
AMADEUS (_with a.s.sumed brusqueness_)
Oh, I can make her come in the afternoon.
CECILIA
But then there will be no time left for your _own_ work. No, better let it be.
AMADEUS
What had we better let be?
CECILIA
Don't come to the rehearsal to-morrow.
AMADEUS
Just as you say, Cecilia. I won't intrude, of course. But a moment ago you said that you felt more certain of yourself when I was within reach. And as far as my work is concerned, I don't think--Albert and I were just talking of it--nothing will come of it until the season is over.
CECILIA
That's what I suspected.
AMADEUS
But during the summer I'll complete my Fourth. I must have something new to conduct this year. And it's only a question of the final pa.s.sages, for that matter. All the rest is as good as finished--in my mind at least.
CECILIA
It's a long time since you let me hear anything of it.
AMADEUS
It hasn't quite reached the point where it can be played. But, of course, you know the princ.i.p.al themes ... the Allegro ... and then the Intermezzo.... (_He goes to the piano and strikes a few notes_)
CECILIA
So you are going next November?
AMADEUS
Yes, for three months.
CECILIA
And during October I shall be in Berlin.
AMADEUS
Oh ... is there any news in that matter?
CECILIA
Yes, I have practically closed. Reichenbach came to see me at the opera-house. I'm to appear in three parts. As Carmen under all circ.u.mstances. The other two are left to my own choice.
AMADEUS
And what do you...?
CECILIA
Tatyana,[3] I suppose. I have heard that they have such a splendid Onyegin.
[3] Tatyana and Onyegin are characters in the opera "Eugene Onyegin," by Tschaikovsky, which is founded on Pushkin's famous poem of the same name.
AMADEUS
Yes, Wedius. I know him. He was in Dresden when I was there.--Carmen, then, and Tatyana, and...?
CECILIA
I am still considering.... Perhaps we might talk it over?
AMADEUS
Of course. (_Pause_)
CECILIA
It's going to be a busy Winter.
