“Yes, about that.”
“But you are sentenced.”
“Yes, and have stood under the shadow of death a hundred times, yet live.”
“This time there will be no escape for you.”
“Oh, yes, there will.”
“Do you intend to commit suicide?”
“Oh, no, I do not intend to hand in my checks yet, but to live.”
“There is no pleading for pardon that will save you.”
“I do not intend to plead.”
“And nothing that I could say would be of avail.”