LOTH
[_Flaring up._] If that's true, I'll murder...! D'you really believe
that? Do you think Hoffmann capable...?
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
Of anything! I think him capable of anything that might contribute to his
own pleasure.
LOTH
Then she is--the purest creature that ever breathed ...
_LOTH slowly takes up his hat and cane and hangs his mallet over his
shoulder._
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
What do you think of doing, Loth?
LOTH
... I mustn't meet her ...
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
So you're determined?
LOTH
Determined to what?
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
To break the connection.
LOTH
How is it possible for me to be other than determined?
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
I may add, as a physician, that cases are known in which such inherited
evils have been suppressed. And of course you would give your children a
rational up-bringing.
LOTH
Such cases may be known.
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
And the chances are not so small but that ...
LOTH
That kind of thing can't help me, Schimmel. There are just three
possibilities in this affair: Either I marry her and then ... no, that
way out simply doesn't exist. Or--the traditional bullet. Of course, that
would mean rest, at least.
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