Performance: Lies on long legs

- So he's spying? Well! I do, he will lay it all down!
- Never! To confess - a gross mistake! Deny! Deny always! To deny even the obvious evidence! <...> Question, that's what! You need to call the question. <...> Swear by all the saints, Madonna, life and death, swear standing and kneeling, swear to who and what you want, but never admit! Take, for example, my husband... You think he knew something? Of course, there was nothing to say about me, because I was a faithful wife, but he was not supposed to know anything! He died not knowing - I taught him horns or not. Oh, I still see this agonizing gaze: "tell me, Christine, admit it!" <...> He died and not knowing why I was crying, whether from remorse for treason, whether from imminent widowhood.