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The Magistrate

Your obstinacy won't help you. Here patience is endless as time. We can wait.


Liliom

Can I ask something—I'd like to know—if Your Honor will tell me—whether the baby will be a boy or a girl.


The Magistrate

You shall see that for yourself.


Liliom

[Excitedly.] I'll see the baby?


The Magistrate

When you do it won't be a baby any more. But we haven't reached that question yet.


Liliom

I'll see it?


The Magistrate

Again I ask you: Do you not regret that you deserted your wife and child; that you were a bad husband, a bad father?


Liliom

A bad husband?


The Magistrate

Yes.