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KRISTIN: No, this I can never forget. Miss Julie who was always so proud and indifferent to men! One never would believe that she would give herself—and to one like you! She who was ready to have Diana shot because she would run after the gatekeeper’s mongrels. Yes, I say it—and here I won’t stay any longer and on the twenty-fourth of October I go my way.
JEAN: And then?
KRISTIN: Well, as we’ve come to talk about it, it’s high time you looked around for something else, since we’re going to get married.
JEAN: Well, what’ll I look for? A married man couldn’t get a place like this.
KRISTIN: No, of course not. But you could take a gatekeeper’s job or look for a watchman’s place in some factory. The government’s plums are few, but they are sure. And then the wife and children get a pension—
