I accepted such baseness--that to-day you might take shelter behind the two innocents!...

No, it shall not be....

you shall not escape me thus.
Since it is the only point on which I can strike you, I will strike you there.

I hold you by that means, do you hear, and I will keep you.
Either you dismiss that man, or I will no longer respect anything.

My wife shall know all! Her! So much the better! For some time I have been stifled by my lies....