_] Oh, how beautiful!
How beautiful!
LOTH
To die with you--thus ...
HELEN
[_Passionately._] To live!... [_She disengages herself from his
embrace._] Why die now?... now ...
LOTH
Yon must not misunderstand me. Always, in happy moments, it has come over
me with a sense of intoxication--the consciousness of the fact that it is
in our power, in my power, to embrace--you understand?
HELEN
To embrace death, if you desired it?
LOTH
[_Quite devoid of sentimentality._] Yes! And the thought of death has
nothing horrible in it for me. On the contrary, it seems like the thought
of a friend. One calls and knows surely that death will come. And so one
can rise above so many, many things--above one's past, above one's future
fate ... [_Looking at HELEN'S hand._] What a lovely hand you have.
[_He caresses it._
HELEN
Ah, yes!--so!...
[_She nestles anew in his arms._
LOTH
No, do you know, I haven't really lived--until now!
HELEN
Do you think I have?... And I feel faint--faint with happiness. Dear God,
how suddenly it all came ...
LOTH
Yes, it came all at once ...
HELEN
Listen, I feel this way: all the days of my life are like one day; but
yesterday and to-day are like a year--a whole year!
LOTH
Didn't I come till yesterday?
HELEN
Of course not! Naturally! That's just it!.
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