EGIL [Seizing the knife from her.] No; You shall not choose so. If that name indeed Be mine, keep silence now, while I avenge The kiss of thy seducer.
[As he turns the knife upon himself, Thordis cries out.]
THORDIS Egil!
EGIL Love! [Springing to her, beside the pool, he recoils.] Impending image! persecuting shape! Depart.
THORDIS Alas! are we both mad?
EGIL Remove The prying horror of thine eyes. Not now— At this the utmost instant of my joy Intrude not now.
THORDIS Whom do you speak to?
EGIL [Staring past Thordis into the pool.] There! Look, we have murdered him. It comes to tell us; It points at thee, to say thou, too, art guilty. We have betrayed and killed him, thou and I. See, see! It kneels and craves our sanction.—Rise, Remorseless shadow! Go! I give it thee.
[He hurls the dagger into the pool. As he staggers back, Thordis rests his head on her shoulder.]
THORDIS Peace, brain and heart!