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Daphne: “You are not doing this for the family. You are doing this for yourself. Because you are afraid.”
Anthony: “Afraid? Of what, pray tell?”
Daphne: “Of the very thing you out-and-out refuse to consider. You are afraid of love. You are afraid of losing it. And so you have decided that it is better not to feel at all. You have decided that a life of duty is a life of safety.”
Anthony: “I am a man of my word. I have a responsibility to this family, to our name. I am doing what is required.”
Daphne: “No, Anthony. You are playing a part. You are hiding behind a mask of duty because you cannot face the truth of your own heart. You think that by choosing a wife you do not love, you are protecting yourself. But you are only ensuring your own misery.”
AI CONVERSATION
IN DUTCH