“What harm has he done that cannot be mended?”
“Alive, he’ll do it yet.”
“I’ll not help to hurt him.”
“You’ll do better to think again.”
“Why, better?”
“Lest you be made to take his place.”
“What! You’ll kill me!”
“Not I, unless I kill my love with kindness. But I cannot save you now your knowledge of another’s secret. Be sure, if your scruples refuse a part in it, means will be taken to keep it fast in you.”
“The duke will have me poisoned?”
“Who said the duke?”