“Where has your colleague, Barbicane, gone to?”
“I have already told you a hundred times.”
“Repeat it for the hundred and first.”
“He has gone where he will fire the cannon.”
“And where will he fire the cannon?”
“Where Barbicane is at this present moment.”
“Take care, Maston!”
“Of what?”
“Of the consequences of your refusal to reply. The result will be—”
“That you will not discover what you have no right to know.”