“Less than one minute!”
“Less than one minute! And you will permit this crime! You will let him go to his death—my sweetheart—my handsome, gallant sweetheart! No, you will not! You are too noble, too generous!”
“You cannot move me!”
“Do you not see that I shall go mad if you kill him? Say that you will give the signal—that you will give the signal!”
“Your last moment of opportunity is rapidly passing. Will you save him?”
“O God—my God!”
“Hear! the hour strikes!”
“The signal—the signal! Give the signal!”
“Not unless you pledge yourself before the last stroke sounds.”
“The signal!”