← (He stands there stupefied, unable to say a word, she runs to the window and cries.) ✎
← Haemon, you swore! Leave. Leave right now and don't say anything. If you speak, if you take one step towards me, I will throw myself out of this window. 🔊✎
← (He has left. She stands without moving, her back to the audience, then she closes the window again and sits down on a little chair in the middle of the stage and says softly, as though strangely comforted.) ✎
← First of all, I'm not tender-hearted but I'm kind of fussy: I like things to be clean and neat. You think this doesn't disgust me as much as you, this piece of stinking meat we've left out in the sun? In the evening, when we get the sea breeze, you can smell it even in the palace. It turns my stomach. But all the same, I don't close the window. 🔊✎
← Then look, have pity on me. The body of your brother rotting under my windows, that's enough payment to reestablish order in Thebes. 🔊✎