Get out!
AGNUS (protesting)
Fanny, I can explain everything—
[The Devil pushes him up. Agnus ascends the stairs stumblingly.
THE DEVIL (looks at his watch again—then at Fanny inquiringly; holds watch in hand) One minute.
FANNY
You lack even the commonest instincts of decency. I’m ashamed to think my name was ever linked with yours.
THE DEVIL (does not take eyes from the watch during the following colloquy) Twenty-two and one-half seconds gone.
FANNY (raging)
I only want you to know that I loathe and despise you. Thank Heaven, I’m cured of my infatuation. If I were to hear you were dead, it wouldn’t matter to me any more than the death of any other blackguard I had the misfortune to know—