The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing / Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

She is gone before us--if we could but follow her.

Oh, the sooner the better. For if the Count be dead--if he was doomed to die on that account--Ha! Why do we stay here? Let us fly, my father.

Fly! Where is the necessity? You are in the hands of your ravisher, and will there remain.

I remain in his hands?

And alone--without your mother--without me.