"No, Henry, you must live, so that I too can live; so that I shall not become mad from agony and sorrow for you! My God, my God, do you not then feel how I love you?
Know you not, then, that your life is my life, and your death my death ?" He leaned his head on her shoulder, and, wholly intoxicated with happiness, he scarcely heard what she was speaking.
She was again there! What cared he for all the rest?
"Geraldine," softly whispered he, "do you recollect still how we first met each other?
how our hearts were united in one throb, how our lips clung to each other in one kiss?
Geraldine, my life, my loved one, we then swore that naught could separate us, that our love should survive the grave! Geraldine, do you remember that still ?" "I remember it, my Henry! But you shall not die yet; and not in death, but in life, shall your love for me be proved! Ay, we will live, live! And your life shall be my life, and where you are, there will I be also! Henry, do you remember that you vowed this to me with a solemn oath!" "I remember it, but I cannot keep my word, my Geraldine! Hear you how they are sawing and hammering there below?
Know you what that indicates, dearest ?" "I know it, Henry! It is the scaffold that they are building there below.

The scaffold for you and me.

For I too will die if you will not live; and the axe that seeks your neck shall find mine also, if you wish not that we both live!" "Do I wish it! But how can we, beloved ?" "We can, Henry, we can! All is ready for the flight! It is all arranged, everything prepared! The king's signet-ring has opened to me the gates of the prison; the omnipotence of gold has won over your jailer.

He will not see it, when two persons instead of one leave this dungeon.
Unmolested and without hinderance, we will both leave the Tower by ways known only to him, over secret corridors and staircases, and will go aboard a boat which is ready to take us to a ship, which lies in the harbor prepared to sail, and which as soon as we are aboard weighs anchor and puts to sea with us.

Come, Henry, come! Lay your arm in mine, and let us leave this prison!" She threw both her arms around his neck, and drew him forward.