And I can only hate what is revealed.

Strader:

With Theodora ’tis not possible.

They say that what one thus lives through, is but

The mirrored working of one’s own soul-powers.

Yet thy soul could not show such things as these.

Theodora (painfully, slowly, as if reflecting):

I know indeed that such ideas are held—

Therefore with all the power that still was mine

I sank into the spirit-world and prayed