I should have killed that child.


PROFESSOR RUBEK.

Killed it, you say?


IRENE.

[Whispering.] Killed it--before I went away from you. Crushed it--
crushed it to dust.


PROFESSOR RUBEK.

[Shakes his head reproachfully.] You would never have been able to,
Irene. You had not the heart to do it.


IRENE.

No, in those days I had not that sort of heart.


PROFESSOR RUBEK.

But since then? Afterwards?