Pa. Well, I'll prove it by Logic then.
Ma. But do so much as answer me this one Question, do you love voluntarily, or against your Will?
Pa. Voluntarily.
Ma. Then since a Person is at Liberty, whether he will love or no; he that does love, is guilty of Felo de se, and accuses a Maid wrongfully.
Pa. A Maid does not kill in being lov'd, but in not loving again. He is guilty of killing, that can save and don't save.
Ma. What if a young Man should fall into an unlawful Love, as suppose with another Man's Wife, or a Vestal Virgin? Must she love him again, to save the Lover?
Pa. But the young Man, meaning myself, loves one whom he ought to love, and by Right and good Reason, and yet am murthered. If Murther be a light Matter, I could indict you for Witchcraft too.
Ma. God forbid, do you make a Circe of me?
Pa. You are more barbarous than Circe herself, I had rather be a Hog or a Bear, than as I now am, half dead.
Ma. By what Sort of Enchantments do I kill Men?