Margaret.
[As before.] Oh! Oh!
Doctor.
You think you would be saving your brother's
life. My poor child, you would be taking it—deliberately taking it.
Margaret.
Oh! Oh! Oh!
Doctor.
No! When you went into the Minister's house
you took a step from which there was no return.
It was destiny. And if destiny has marked out
Otto for this sacred task of ridding the world of a
tyrant, why should you keep him back from it?
Margaret.
[Recovering herself and throwing up her head.]
Because I must!
Fritz.
[Laughing bitterly.] If you dare!
Margaret.
Oh, you can't frighten me with what will happen
to myself. Perhaps I have other reasons than you
know of for not wishing Sir Robert Temple to find
out that I've deceived him, but since it is necessary
that he should know, he shall know. You can't
frighten me about Otto either. If the worst comes
to the worst it is better that he should be punished
for consenting to commit a crime than for committing
it. But he will not be punished. The Minister will
