‘You’re a monster to as much as think this of me! I just love him ─ I’m not in love with him ─ and I want to protect him from whoever should …"
‘Duels have always taken place between two men over the love of a woman or, rarely, between two women over the affections of a man as has happened in France as often as thrice in recent years. Why should this duel have another purpose?’
‘Make of that what you will. In any event, I’ve warned you, so pay close attention!’
‘Do you know Countess Erzsébet Báthory, Franziska? She was a Hungarian noblewoman living two hundred years ago’.
‘Of course, the most notorious assassin of Hungary! It appears she killed between one hundred and three hundred women’.
‘In truth, she killed six hundred and fifty; however, she drank their blood in the hop
