The Listerdale Mystery
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"Don't you see? It's the story of Tosca all over again. He wanted her in Italy, but she was faithful to her over, and she went to him to try to get him to save her lover, and he pretended he would. Instead he let him die. And now at last her revenge has come. Didn't you hear the way she hissed " I am Tosca"?And I saw Bréon's face when she said it, he knew then -he recognized her!" In her dressing-room, Paula Nazorkoff sat motionless, a white ermine cloak held round her. There was a knock on the door.
"Come in," said the prima donna.
Elise entered. She was sobbing.
"Madame, madame, he is dead! And - "
"Yes?"
"Madame, how can I tell you? There are two gentlemen of the police there; they want to speak to you." Paula Nazorkoff rose to her full height.
"I will go to them," she said quietly.
She untwisted a collar of pearls from her neck and put them into the French girl's hands.
"Those are for you, Elise, you have been a good girl. I shall not need them now where I am going. You understand, Elise? I shall not sing 'Tosca' again."
She stood a moment by the door, her eyes sweeping over the dressing-room, as though she looked back over the past thirty years of her career.
Then softly between her teeth, she murmured the last line of another opera:
"La commedia e finita!"
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