"Yes; I see all the rest of the play, which cannot fail to turn out all right in your hands."
"Then what is the thing that troubles you?"
"The dénoûment."
"Why the dénoûment? We have got that already."
Mawbray comes forward as witness and says to Richard, who is about to sign: 'You are my son, and I am the executioner!' Richard falls to the ground and a fit of apoplexy sends him to the devil, which is the right place for him."
"No, that is not it at all," said Goubaux, shaking his head.
"What is it then?"
"It is the way in which he gets rid of his wife."
"Ah!" I said. "And you have no idea how that is to be done?"
"I had indeed some idea of making him put poison in her tea."