SECOND SPY
Yes! We wished to kidnap the child, to hold him as a hostage and thus to have you at our mercy. We have nothing further to say. Our lips are sealed.
WINGED PRINCE
Name your accomplices.
SECOND SPY
We shall say nothing.
WINGED PRINCE
Ha! ha! We have made others speak. [To the EMPRESS] The torture at once, is it not?
EMPRESS
Torture, no! Death, instant death.