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Start: Princess: Now I’ve got you to myself for two minutes. You will help me with my concert, won’t you?

Pearl: Of course. What do you want me to do? I’ll make Arthur Fenwick take any number of tickets. You know how charitable he is for a very good cause. Pearl: I’m sure it is. But don’t harrow me with revolting stories of starving children. I’m not interested in the poor.

Princess: [Smiling] How can you say that?

Pearl: Are you? I often wonder if your philanthropy isn’t an elaborate pose. You don’t mind my saying that, do you?

Princess: Not at all. You have no heart, and you can’t imagine that anyone else should have.

Pearl: I have plenty of heart, but it beats for people of my own class.

Princess: I’ve only found one thing really worth doing with all this money I have, and that is to

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