Satan: I do not ask your soul, only that shining gaud.
Antoninus: Such things are not for hell.
Satan: I offer you Youth.
Antoninus: I do not need it. Life is a penance and ordained as a tribulation. I have come through by striving. Why should I care to strive again?
Satan (smiles): Why?
Antoninus: Why should I?
Satan (laughs, looking through window): It's spring, brother, is it not?
Antoninus: A time for meditation.
Satan (laughs): There are girls coming over the hills, brother. Through the green leaves and the May.
[Antoninus draws his scourge from his robe.