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He and Crawford approached the house through the woods, as Dollarhyde was straddling Reba on his kitchen counter and threatening to slice her neck with a piece of shattered mirror glass.[Note: After the Narrator's opening description of the Warsaw setting, the film segued to another setting - Gestapo Headquarters in Berlin, to backtrack and explain why Hitler was on he Warsaw street.She was terribly upset about how she had her heart broken by her male suitor, and threatened to commit suicide by cutting her throat.Think of the power to create a man - and I did it.I did it! I created a man, and who knows, in time, I could have trained him to do my will.I could have bred a race.I might even have found the secret of eternal life.Elizabeth: Henry, don't say those things.Don'tthinkthem! It's blasphemous and wicked.We are notmeantto know those hings.Henry: It may be that I'mintendedto know the secret of life.It may be part of the Divine Plan.Elizabeth: No, no! It's theDevilthat prompts you.It's death, not life, that is in it all and at the end of it all.During Elizabeth's admonishments about meddling in God's affairs, she experiences a bizarre fit (she imagines an apparition hat has come to claim Henry) that reduces her to hysterical tears:Elizabeth: Listen Henry, while you've been lying here, tossing in your delirium, I couldn't sleep.