AXEL. Cecilia—are you willing to leave this place with me in fifteen minutes?
CECILIA. In fifteen minutes! For where!
AXEL. London.
CECILIA. I am not going with you until we are married.
AXEL. Why?
CECILIA. Why should we leave like that, all of a sudden?
AXEL. Because—it's suffocating here! And if I stay, they'll drag me down so deep that I'll never get up again.
CECILIA. How strange! Are you as badly off as that?
AXEL. Do you come with me, or do you not?
CECILIA. Not until we are married—for afterward you would never marry me.