“And will you always continue in this criminal course, a murderer of other lives?”
He looked her calmly in the face. “I do not know.”
“Are you the slave of your unknown god?”
“We are all slaves, wire-pulled marionettes: You, Ernest, I. There is no freedom on the face of the earth nor above. The tiger that tears a lamb is not free, I am not free, you are not free. All that happens must happen; no word that is said is said in vain, in vain is raised no hand.”
“Then,” Ethel retorted, eagerly, “if I attempted to wrest your victim from you, I should also be the tool of your god?”
“Assuredly. But I am his chosen.”