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Enter Lisa, in black and veiled.
EXAMINING MAGISTRATE. Take a seat, please. [Points to a chair] Believe
me, I much regret to have to question you, but we are under the
necessity ... Please be calm, and remember that you need not answer my
questions. Only, in my opinion, for your own sake--and in fact for
everybody's sake--the truth is best. It is always best, even
practically.
LISA. I have nothing to conceal.
EXAMINING MAGISTRATE. Well then [looks at paper]--your name, position,
religion--all that I have put down. Is it correct?
LISA. Yes.
EXAMINING MAGISTRATE. You are accused of contracting a marriage with
another man, knowing your husband to be alive.
LISA. I did not know it.
EXAMINING MAGISTRATE. And also of having persuaded your husband,
and
bribed him with money, to commit a fraud--a pretended suicide--in order
to free yourself of him.
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