uld 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
Your promises, broken two days, are kept?
You've spoken? won lord Renier to wisdom?
Pled him to silence which alone can save us?
Dear mother----?

_Berengere._ Do not call me so again.

[_Turns away._

I have not--and I will not.

_Yolanda._ Oh!

_Berengere._ I cannot