" She was obsessed with the success of her maternal grooming: "Come, August, we shall reply to the king at once.They plot to run away together, and she writes an explanatory note to Nick:Nick -I'm going away with Frank - I love him.Water pouring out of he U-shaped 'dump tanks' was played in reverse in order to create he illusion of the sea's parting.] The unusual, out-of-place object with straight-edges causes them to be alarmed and they react nervously.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.