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:07:00
lf you're reckoning on her illness,
you'll be disappointed.

:07:04
Sick people live longest of all.
:07:09
How was it the first time with you?
:07:12
ls it something you can tell me?
:07:17
Yes, l can tell you.
:07:19
lt was terrible...
:07:23
and for that reason...
:07:24
you can set your mind at rest
as far as Kruse is concerned.

:07:28
When you've been through
what l've been through, you've had enough.

:07:33
The next day, l always feel shattered.
And such terrible anxiety!

:07:38
Tell me, then. How was it?
:07:42
l know from at home, with women like you,
it's always the same story.

:07:49
Yes...
:07:51
in the end, it probably is always the same.
:07:55
l don't want to pretend
my case was anything special.

:07:58
Not in the least.
:08:00
But when they accused me to my face...
:08:03
and l suddenly had to admit:
:08:05
''Yes, it's true.''
:08:07
That was dreadful.
:08:09
My mother wasn't too hard on me.
:08:12
But my father, the village blacksmith,
was strict and terrible.

:08:17
When he heard about it, he went for me
with an iron bar from the fire.

:08:22
He wanted to kill me.
:08:24
l had a younger sister...
:08:27
who used to point at me and say,
''Shame on you!''

:08:31
When the child was due,
l went into a nearby barn...

:08:35
because l didn't dare show my face at home.
:08:38
Strangers found me half dead.
:08:41
They carried me into the house
and put me to bed.

:08:45
On the third day...
:08:46
they took my child away...
:08:49
and when l asked later where it was...
:08:53
they said it was in good hands.
:08:59
Oh, ma'am...

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