"Vera, or the Nihilists" by Oscar Wilde
- CZAR: [holding dagger out of her reach] Death is in my heart too; we shall die together!
- VERA: Oh, love! love! love! be merciful to me! The wolves are hot upon you!--you must live for liberty, for Russia, for me! Oh, you do not love me! You offered me an empire once! Give me this dagger, now! Oh, you are cruel! My life for yours! What does it matter?
- CZAR: The bitterness of death is past for me
- VERA: Oh, they are breaking in below! See! The bloody man behind you!h! [VERA snatches dagger and flings it out of window.]
- CONSPIRATORS: Long live the people!
- CZAR: What have you done?
- VERA: I have saved Russia!
