THE DEVIL
Ah, you know blackguards, do you? Thirty-nine and two-thirds seconds gone—
FANNY
What I could have seen in you at any time I don’t know—I wonder at myself—and I laugh—yes, laugh, I tell you—laugh to think I could have been so taken in. I hate you! I hate you!! I hate you!!!
AGNUS (who has crept down the stairs, reënters)
Fanny, don’t say that—
[The Devil picks up from table behind him a brass ornament and throws it—his other hand still holding the watch as before. Agnus disappears in order to dodge the ornament.
FANNY (raging on through this by-play which she does not observe) I am going now, never to return. If you should see me again, look the other way unless you wish to be cut before the whole world.
THE DEVIL (snapping watch)
Minute’s up. (He goes to the door to admit Magnus)