Third Man on the Mountain

Emil Saxo:
It's the end of it, for him. But it needn't be for us.

Franz Lerner:
What do you mean?

Emil Saxo:
Tomorrow the weather will be good, after that, who knows? If we leave at first dawn, we'll be there by eight. The boy will stay with him, he won't be left alone. And it's what he would want us to do.

Franz Lerner:
It isn't a question of what he would want. A guide - at any rate, a guide of Kurtal - does not leave his client on a mountain and go on alone.

Frau Matt:
Would you want to be the wife of a guide?

Lizbeth Hempel:
Yes. Or of a dishwasher, or a hotel proprietor. But never the wife of a hotel proprietor who wanted to climb mountains! Because a man must do what he feels he must do; or he isn't a man. And no one, wife mother or sweetheart, has the right to make him into something that he wasn't meant to be.