SCENE 2
Outside the courthouse. HENRI stands with Theodora.
THEODORA
Did you speak to him?
HENRI
To him? Well, at him, really. He doesn't listen to anyone anymore. He stopped that the minute he dug up that corpse?
THEODORA
Henri... I hope you know you shouldn't speak to your best friend like this before he surely dies. You'll regret it forever.
HENRI
And say what, Theodora? That I'm sorry? That I forget what he did to me? What HE created? How he cast me off and left me? LOOK AT WHAT HE'S DONE!
THEODORA
Henri... You know I'm on your side. What he did turns my stomach, but you have to be there for him. You are all he has now.
HENRI
ALL HE HAS??! He doesn't have me! He stopped having me the moment Elizabeth died.
(pause)
THEODORA
Henri... it's not about him is it.
(pause)
HENRI
...no. It stopped being about him when he let her die.
THEODORA
Come on. You're here now. You should stay.
HENRI
No.
(pause)
THEODORA
Henri...
HENRI
NO.
END SCENE
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The trial of Victor Frankenstein
Художественная прозаAfter the catastrophe with the creature, Frankenstein is arrested and put on trial. After his former friend Henri Clerval visits him in a holding cell to give him a letter, Frankenstein opens it to find that it is from the creature. This tale of bro...
