I became glass-like and saw within myself. There were two selves in me. One, the former D-503 , Number D-503 ; and the other.⁠ ⁠… Before, that other used only to show his hairy paws from time to time, but now the whole other self left his shell. That shell was breaking, and in a moment.⁠ ⁠…

Grasping with all my strength the last straw (the arms of the chair), I asked loudly (so as to hear my first self), “Where, where did you get this poison?”

“Oh, this? A physician, one of my.⁠ ⁠…”

“ ‘One of my! one of my’ what?” And my other self jumped up suddenly and yelled: “I won’t allow it! I want no one but me.⁠ ⁠… I shall kill anyone who.⁠ ⁠… Because I.⁠ ⁠… You.”⁠ ⁠… I saw my other self grasp her rudely with his hairy paws, tear the silk, and put his teeth in her flesh!⁠ ⁠… I remember exactly, his teeth!⁠ ⁠…