Conjurer. Half an hour after I have left this house you will be all saying how it was done.
[Conjurer buttons up his cloak and advances to Patricia.
Conjurer. Good-bye.
Patricia. I shall not say good-bye.
Conjurer. You are great as well as good. But a saint can be a temptress as well as a sinner. I put my honour in your hands ... oh, yes, I have a little left. We began with a fairy tale. Have I any right to take advantage of that fairy tale? Has not that fairy tale really and truly come to an end?
Patricia. Yes. That fairy tale has really and truly come to an end. [Looks at him a little in the old mystical manner.] It is very hard for a fairy tale to come to an end. If you leave it alone it lingers everlastingly. Our fairy tale has come to an end in the only way a fairy tale can come to an end. The only way a fairy tale can leave off being a fairy tale.
Conjurer. I don't understand you.
Patricia. It has come true.
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