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It has occurred to you, of course,
that I intend to marry Maria?
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- It has occurred to me.
- Do you approve?
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- Have you told her?
- Not yet.
:18:15
She has been waiting to be told.
:18:17
I believe the proper word
in connection with marriage is "ask".
:18:21
You keep saying "told".
:18:23
I know Maria very little, but I've known
for weeks that she is in love with you.
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Do you approve?
:18:29
It is almost frightening,
how much in love with you she is.
:18:33
Then you don't approve.
:18:35
Why do you ask me at all?
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Because you want me
to tell you what you already know?
:18:40
That to marry Maria would be the most
destructive thing you'll ever have done?
:18:45
As for destruction, we have
already been destroyed, you and I.
:18:49
We have come to the end of our line.
:18:52
Literally, to the end of the line.
:18:54
It is time for the Torlato-Favrinis
to get off the world.
:18:58
The fact remains that we are neither
unique nor important to the world,
:19:01
and it will go on without us.
:19:04
How will we be remembered, I wonder?
:19:07
Why should we be remembered at all?
:19:09
Nobility - the kind that continues
just because it continues to exist -
:19:15
is becoming extinct.
:19:17
But why?
:19:19
Because the world has
become a changed place.
:19:22
And, like the dinosaurs,
we can no longer function in it.
:19:26
Perhaps that's why
I'm incapable of having a child.
:19:31
- Perhaps that's why you...
- We cannot have come this far
:19:34
to leave nothing behind but some
undistinguished, unidentifiable portraits,
:19:39
to be hung on the back walls of curiosity
shops to gather the dust of the future.
:19:45
Come here, Eleonora.