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Elsa has returned to the family home for the first time since she scandalized society by falling in love with a married man. Their union has brought her love, but it has also brought pain. She sits in the room of her late aunt, who also secretly loved a married man, and prepares to read her private poems. Her thoughts are interrupted by close family friend, Ann, who wants Elsa’s advice. Ann has fallen head over heels in love with a visiting newspaper reporter and she now realizes how powerful
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ELSA (putting the portfolio on the table): Come in.
ANN: May I? Just a moment?
ELSA: Of course, Ann.
ANN (looking around): Alison's room. As if—as if she might be going to bed here.
ELSA: I have been thinking of that. [Pause. Won't you sit down, dear?
[ANN comes to the table, sits.]
ANN: I feel I shouldn't be here. I know you are tired, and want to be alone
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