Pfeifer advises Corbeau and S that it is better for them to leave him there and run away instead of trying to save his injured self. Corbeau responds that she doesn’t want to see another martyr. She also tells Pfeifer that there was no reason for him to become a martyr when Pfeifer tells corbeau that Stenfalk, her lover, did the same thing. S makes an inference that Pfeifer wants to be compared similer to Stenfalk as Pfeifer loves Corbeau and wants to die by doing a sacrifice for the woman he loves.

When S. honestly tells Pfeifer that they need to be together despite S.’s urge to just run away, Pfeifer tells S. how he admired S.’s honestly but have never trusted him. He also condescendingly says that he wished S. was useful in any way.