Listen, Magdalene.... I lack neither courage nor loyalty.... Notwithstanding the power of the priests, I have thrown open my house to those who followed him. I know the price which I shall have to pay.... I am prepared to sacrifice everything and life itself to him. But I know his will and I cannot disobey him.... Peter wished to defend him and drew his sword.... He made him put it up into the sheath.... I was at Gethsemane....
Mary Magdalene
Since you were there, why did you not help Peter?... We save those whom we love; we listen to them afterwards!... But what will you do when you have destroyed him?... Oh, I am delaying too long with those who are afraid!... What am I doing here, among men who will do nothing?... I am wasting his last chances and his last minutes.... I will go to meet Verus; after him, we shall see.... (She turns to the door. Joseph of Arimathæa and Nicodemus block her way.)
Nicodemus
Do not go out, Magdalene: it means destroying him and destroying us with him....
Mary Magdalene
Ah, destroying you with him, that is the trouble!... Wait! (She takes another step towards the door. Nicodemus stops her resolutely.)
Nicodemus
You shall not go out.
Mary Magdalene