-Please! Dear.
-You owe money: that’s the only truth. It’s not a question of bad plays, luck or cheaters.
-I beg you... You should help me this time and afterwards, honey, we’ll run away from this sad village together. We can see a different sky for ever. I promise you! I swear you!
-You have been repeating the same promises for years, Edgar. How can I believe you now?
-Only this time, Anna, only this time.
-Are you going to play again?
-Never more! –Edgar put his hand on his breast and, closing his eyes, he seemed to swear solemnly.
Anna stood up slowly; she went till a close folding screen and hid behind it while Edgar smiled satisfied. Then, she took some notes from a little box buried among bags and clothes and going out, gave them to him:
-Never again! –He repeated.
Just whispers and nothing more.

When Anna appeared in her sister’s room, there was a flirt butterfly whirling between the opening curtains although… Elisabeth was waiting as a guilty smoky shadow:
-You have given in, haven’t you? –She said.
-This will be the last time. Tonight, I’ve believed him –Anna answered to her reproachful sister Elisabeth.
-Don’t you see he is using you… us? Is your mind so unbalanced as not to notice it?
-He has sworn we’ll run away from this horrible place together –Anna said with emotion.
-How stupid you are! You’re much more cowardly than I thought. Be brave for once! You must recognize he only wants you for our precious money.
-He loves me, no my money –Anna protested.

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