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THE PRIME MINISTER

Margaret.
[Picking up suit-case.] This will do. [Reading label.] "Zurich." Good! Give me the keys. [Taking keys from Freda.] We must change wardrobes, you know.

Mrs. Schiller.
What are you going to do, Margaret?

Margaret.
[Going in on L.] Don't ask me. I don't know myself yet. Give me a month in that house and we shall see.

Mrs. Schiller
But why——

Margaret.
[At door.] Why am I going there? Because it is the centre of everything—the war and all the abominations of the world. Oh, to be a month in that house! Only a month! [She goes out L.

Mrs. Schiller.
But, Margaret——

Doctor.
Leave her alone, Marie.

Hoffmann.
Yes, leave her alone. Exceptional women have impulses, instincts, intuitions——

Fritz.
If Margaret only manages her cards well now——

Hoffmann.
Trust her—trust her.