- Alice: Twenty-five years I have lived in this fortress, captive. Like the prisoners used to be in the dungeons below here. Guarded by a man I have always hated, whom I now hate so utterly that the day he died I should laugh aloud.
- Kurt: Why did you never separate?
- Alice: You may well ask. There hasn't been a day that we haven't wanted to but we're welded together and can't get free. For five years we hardly spoke to each other and now only death can part us.
- Kurt: Why are you both so lonely?
- Alice: Because he isolates me. First of all he uprooted my brother and sisters, "uprooting" is his own word for it. And then my friend..
- Kurt: But his relations - you have uprooted them.
- Alice: Yes, for after destroying my reputation, they almost destroyed me. In the end my only communication with the outside world was that telegraph there. You see the telephone girls used to spy on us. I taught myself how to use it. Don't tell him that or he'll kill me.
- Kurt: Terrible. Terrible.