RUTH. I've had some happiness with him. The sort of happiness you have when you're asleep. I loved him in my sleep, and in my dreams he seemed a proper man to love. But you—you've had no happiness. You have been lonely, Martin, lonely and cold and hungry. You should have had me working with you all this while. I've been a traitor to you in my sleep. But now—now I am awake and in the death to which they'll make you go, you shall be stainless to the end. And in their hearts you'll live again—the man who planned and did and died upon a gallows for the people's sake. I will keep you pure for that, my Martin. I——-
GUY (from fire). I am being very patient, Ruth.
RUTH (to Martin, not turning). You see, I've had my happiness, so it is right that I should pay. (She turns to Guy.)
GUY. So? You have finished your farewell?
RUTH. Yes, Guy, it is all over now.
GUY (suddenly ferocious). Then come here, Ruth. Come here and scream. Scream loudly, Ruth, or I shall cheat the hangman of his prey before they drag me off.
RUTH (between them) You shall not touch him, Guy. A fettered man.
GUY. Shan't! Shall I not? Come to me, Ruth, I tell you. Come away. I'm master here.
RUTH. Yes. You are master here where your father was. And if you die, your father would be master still.
GUY. You are standing in my way.