Leonard.
Hand and throat are close cousins. They won’t damage one another. Don’t worry about that.
Clara.
He has sworn it.—Marry me, and then kill me—and I’ll thank you more for the one than the other.
Leonard.
Do you love me? Did your heart tell you to come? Am I the man without whom you can’t live or die?
Clara.
Answer that yourself.
Leonard.
Can you swear that you love me? That you love me as a girl should love the man who is to be bound to her for life?