Fanny. What do you mean by this cross-examination?
Hindes. I have a notion that if you were to do what you have in your mind at present,—a thing I cannot bring myself to name,—then Olga would not accept Berman's love. Rather she would take her own life, since she would look upon herself as the cause of your death.
Fanny. What's this you've thought up?
Hindes. Just what you heard.
Fanny. And you mean—?
Hindes. —That you know your sister and ought to realize what she's liable to do.
Fanny [in a fit of anger]. First she takes away my life, and now she will not let me die!
[Her head sinks to the table.]
Hindes. There spoke the true Fanny, the Fanny of yore.
Fanny [weeps bitterly].