Doctor.

[With intense significance.] Yes. Choose—which is it to be?

Margaret.
Oh! Oh! Oh!

[Otto, who has not moved during the foregoing scene, now steps to Margaret's side.

Otto.
[In a low, quivering voice.] Margaret, there is something you have forgotten—this man Temple killed our father——

Margaret.
Otto!

Otto.
Killed him by a false charge, a false trial, and a false imprisonment.

Margaret.
[Hesitating.] But, Otto——

Otto.
[With a wild look of exultation.] Therefore he deserves his death. It will not be crime, but justice.

Margaret.
Otto, I must confess——

Otto.
It is for us to do it, too—his children. Fate has put it into our power to avenge our father's death, and we must avenge it.