"In it or not in it, it is now I or she! Do you understand, sir?"
"I understand, but what is to be done?"
"When you ran away from the police, I did not ask what was to be done."
"I remember."
"And you said at Swidwicki's that your people could accomplish everything."
"For it is so."
"So if he only does not marry her, then even let the world end."
Laskowicz began to look at her with his closely set eyes and after a moment commenced to speak slowly and with emphasis:
"Krzycki was once already condemned and lives, thanks to you, lady, but if he gets a bullet in his head, then he will marry no one."
But she, hearing this, turned pale as a corpse; in the same moment she sprang at him with her finger-nails!