Now.
(He sits down at the table in the chair which be has just
placed.)
LADY. Yes; but you know you have THE letter in your pocket. (He
smiles; takes a letter from his pocket; and tosses it on the top
of the heap. She holds it up and looks at him, saying) About
Caesar's wife.
NAPOLEON. Caesar's wife is above suspicion. Burn it.
LADY (taking up the snuffers and holding the letter to the
candle flame with it). I wonder would Caesar's wife be above
suspicion if she saw us here together!
NAPOLEON (echoing her, with his elbows on the table and his
cheeks on his hands, looking at the letter). I wonder! (The
Strange Lady puts the letter down alight on the snuffers tray,
and sits down beside Napoleon, in the same attitude, elbows on
table, cheeks on hands, watching it burn. When it is burnt, they
simultaneously turn their eyes and look at one another. The
curtain steals down and hides them.)
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