ADAM. It is; and it is not. It is something greater than me: I am only a part of it.
EVE. The Voice does not tell me not to kill you. Yet I do not want you to die before me. No voice is needed to make me feel that.
ADAM [throwing his arm round her shoulder with an expression of anguish] Oh no: that is plain without any voice. There is something that holds us together, something that has no word—
THE SERPENT. Love. Love. Love.
ADAM. That is too short a word for so long a thing.
THE SERPENT [laughs]!!!
EVE [turning impatiently to the snake] That heart-biting sound again! Do not do it. Why do you do it?
THE SERPENT. Love may be too long a word for so short a thing soon. But when it is short it will be very sweet.
ADAM [ruminating] You puzzle me. My old trouble was heavy; but it was simple. These wonders that you promise to do may tangle up my being before they bring me the gift of death. I was troubled with the burden of eternal being; but I was not confused in my mind. If I did not know that I loved Eve, at least I did not know that she might cease to love me, and come to love some other Adam and desire my death. Can you find a name for that knowledge?
THE SERPENT. Jealousy. Jealousy. Jealousy.