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Aurora's young lover, Henry, has just come to see her. However, she greets him with the news that the love poems he wrote for her have disappeared from her possessions. She is worried that her husband and her family have them and will discover the truth about her affair with Henry. Henry is young and naive, and does not particularly seem worried that the poems have potentially been discovered. His naivete leads him to believe that he and Aurora can simply walk away from her husband without any
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HE [kissing her hand] At last!
SHE. Henry: something dreadful has happened.
HE. What's the matter?
SHE. I have lost your poems.
HE. They were unworthy of you. I will write you some more.
SHE. No, thank you. Never any more poems for me. Oh, how could I have been so mad! so rash! so imprudent!
HE. Thank Heaven for your madness, your rashness, your
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