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FÉDYA. Just listen to me, Sásha ... I quite understand you, Sásha dear,
and in your place I should do the same--I should try to find some way to
bring back the old state of affairs. But if you were me, if--strange as
it sounds--you, dear sensitive girl, were in my place ... you would
certainly have done as I did, and have gone away and ceased to spoil
someone else's life.
SÁSHA. Spoil? How? As if Lisa could live without you!
FÉDYA. Oh, Sásha dear! Dear heart!... She can, she can! And she will yet
be happy--far happier than with me.
SÁSHA. Never!
FÉDYA. It seems so to you [Takes her hand] ... But that's not the point.
The chief thing is, that I can't!... You know, one folds a piece of
thick paper this way and that a hundred times and still it holds
together; but fold it once more, and it comes in half.... So it was with
Lisa and me. It hurts me too much to look into her eyes--and she feels
the same, believe me!
SÁSHA. No, no!
FÉDYA. You say "No," but you yourself know that it is "Yes"!
SÁSHA. I can only judge by myself. If I were in her place, and you
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