"Too bad."
"With a million—the million their electrocution will bring from the outraged—we can accomplish more than saving two paltry lives. We must be hard, we must think ahead."
"In thinking ahead, Skorvsky, do you not think of the closing of a switch and the burning of human flesh?"
"For every cause there must be martyrs. Their names will live eternally."
"And they themselves—?"
"Bah! You are impractical."
"Perhaps." Hugo ate a slice of toast with outward calm. "I was hoping for a government that—did not weigh people against dollars—"
"Nor do we!"
"No?"
Skorvsky leaped to his feet. "Fool! Dreamer! Preposterous idealist! I must be going."