"The Supreme Tribunal have decreed that a certain individual shall suffer the penalty of death. You are the person drawn by lot to carry out the sentence."
"They would make an assassin of me?--Never!"
"You are bound by your oath to carry out the behests of the Tribunal, be they what they may."
"No oath can bind a man to become a murderer."
"One of the chief conditions attached to your oath is that of blind and unquestioning obedience."
"Karovsky, this is monstrous."
"I am sorry that things have fallen out as they have, mon ami; but such being the case, there is no help for it."
"I--Gerald Brooke--whose ancestors fought at Cressy, to sink to the level of a common assassin? Never!"
"Pardon. Might it not be as well, before you express your determination in such emphatic terms, to consider what would be the consequence of a refusal on your part to comply with the instructions of which I have the misfortune to be the bearer?--Mrs. Brooke is very young to be left a widow."
"Karovsky!"