If be should be found to be a very shocking object, you had best kill him. […] Come, then, with me, and be my queen.” […] But I will be too cunning for him. […] This would be a great achievement, and his courage would be commended every where. […] Rather than be his, I would be swallowed up by the cold earth: suffer me to be hidden in her dark bosom, so that I escape from him.”