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94 Gerhart Hauptmann>
Your parents have a different standard from you.
Kitty s again, differs from theirs. It seems to me that
in this we cannot judge for them.
John. Yes, but you have always said yourself that one
should not allow one s self to be ruled by the opinion of
others that one ought to be independent?
Miss Mahr. You have often said to me that you fore
see a new, a nobler state of fellowship between man and
woman.
John. Yes, I feel that it will come some time a
relationship in which the human will preponderate over
the animal tie. Animal will no longer be united to
animal, but one human being to another. Friendship is
the foundation on which this love will rise, beautiful,
unchangeable, a miraculous structure. And I foresee
more than this something nobler, richer, freer still.
Miss Mahr. But will you get anyone, except me, to
believe this? Will this prevent Kitty s grieving herself
to death? . . . Don t let us speak of ourselves at all.
Let us suppose, quite generally, the feeling of a new,
more perfect relationship between two people to exist, as
it were prophetically. It is only a feeling, a young and
all too tender plant which must be carefully watched and
guarded. Don t you think so, Dr. Vockerat? That this
plant should come to perfection during our lifetime is
not to be expected. We shall not see or taste its fruits.
But we may help to propagate it for future generations.
I could imagine a person accepting this as a life-task.
John. And hence you conclude that we must part.
Miss Mahr. I did not mean to speak of ourselves.
But it is as you say ... we must part. Another idea
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