'My being at the Imperium.'
'It is not for me to like or dislike. I am not the controller of your
movements. I would never control the movements of any living creature.'
'Except in your work.'
'They work out their own salvation. They are nothing to do with me,
any more than the woman on the stairs.'
'But you love them.'
(He had made them as real to her as they were to himself.)
'They don't leave me alone. They want to live.... But they can only
live on the stage.'