Lucifer:
Here too I find the soul’s gate open wide.
I’ll not delay but use this chance at once.
If also in this soul a spirit-wish
Is born, that work of love must come to naught
Which doth bode ill to me through Hilary.
I can destroy Maria’s might in him:
And thus can add her power unto mine own.
(Capesius at this moment straightens up self-consciously, and, during the following speech, shows an increasingly definite conviction.)
Capesius: