Karénin (reading). Must be removed? "By the time this letter reaches you, I shall no longer exist. All I ask you is to be happy, and whenever you think of me, think tender thoughts. God bless you both. Good-bye. FÉDYA."
Lisa. He's killed himself!
Karénin (going hurriedly up stage L. and calls of). My secretary! Call back my secretary!
Lisa. Fédya! Fédya, darling!
Karénin. Lisa!
Lisa. It's not true! It's not true that I've stopped loving him! He's the only man in all the world I love! And now I've killed him! I've killed him as surely as if I'd murdered him with my own two hands!
Karénin. Lisa, for God's sake!
Lisa. Stop it! Don't come near me! Don't be angry with me, Victor. You see I, too, cannot lie!
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