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Annette, Gilbert enter the scene
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Annette
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Father! Father! Why do you pretend not to recognize me?!
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Gilbert
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Annette...I—
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Annette
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I've been looking everywhere for you. Please stop treating me like a stranger. I can't bear it!
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Gilbert
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Annette
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Father, wait! How long will you keep avoiding me like this?!
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Gilbert
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I have lost the right to face you or your mother.
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Annette
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This has nothing to do with rights! We're family. I'm your daughter.
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Gilbert
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Indeed, you are my daughter. Yet I am no father. I am only a fool who abandoned his family.
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Annette
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You really think it was foolish to abandon us?
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Gilbert
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I do.
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Annette
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Then the least you can do is apologize. I'm fine, but Mother deserves as much.
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Annette
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I've finished my studies at the school of sorcery and entered the Officers Academy. I have a busy and satisfying life now.
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Annette
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I've finished my studies at the school of sorcery and the Officers Academy. I have a busy and satisfying life now.
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Annette
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But Mother... She's waited for you to return all this time, living under my uncle's roof.
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Gilbert
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I... I am sorry, Annette.
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Annette
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I already told you. Don't say that to me. Apologize to Mother! Let her see your face!
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Gilbert
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That I cannot do. I know you do not understand, but it is the way of things.
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Gilbert
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As for you, Annette. Say the word, and I will disappear from your life forever.
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Gilbert
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For now though, I must return to my duties.
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Gilbert leaves the scene
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Annette
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Father... How could you be so cruel...