Alessa (sharply). And you have?
Hassan. Yes.
Alessa. Though you boasted love to me?
Hassan. Now, woman!
Alessa. Lady, I would have wed him – wed this toad!
[Stingingly.
Who'd kill the Paphian, too!
Hassan. Yes!
Alessa. Worm! with dust?
Heeling away from him?
Yolanda. Be still, be still.
[Alessa turns to her.
These words can wait on what may yet be helped.
This may undo me! First of all I should
Have seen Amaury! Now – !
Hassan. The Venetian!
[They start. Vittia enters from the castle.
Lady, I will go in.
Alessa. And I; to wait.
[They go.
Yolanda (suddenly). But I to see Amaury.
Vittia. What? (stops).
Yolanda. To see,
Vittia Visani, who withholds Amaury —
Who came last night at dusk, as well you know.
[They face, opposed.
What have you told him?
Vittia. Ha!
Yolanda. Insolence, false
And feigning! But no matter; lies are brief.
I'll go myself to him.
Vittia. To be repelled?
Berengere enters.
Yolanda. If he could trust you – but he could not.
Vittia. Knowing
A Paphian ere this has fondled two?
Yolanda. You hear, mother? (To Vittia). Out of my way at once.
Berengere. Stay, stay! She has not told him! nothing!.. Yes,
I too have been aware and kept you blind.
For he was overworn, and still is, much.
But now his wound —
Yolanda. Wound! he is wounded?
Berengere. He sleeps.
Yolanda. And is in danger – jeopardy?
Berengere. In none;
If the leech Tremitus has any skill;
And that you know.
Yolanda. I thank … Madonna … thee!
[Vittia laughs and goes.
But you, mother, are come at last to say