“Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.”

“You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured! I was cured alright.”

“Well, sir, embrace me once, as you would embrace your daughter, and I swear to you that that kiss, the only chaste kiss I have ever had, will make me strong against my love, and that within a week your son will be once more at your side, perhaps unhappy for a time, but cured forever.”

“Imagine there was a cure, but finding it would cost you everything. It would completely ruin your life. What would you do?”

“a good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”

“Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.”