_Amaury._ Out, quickly.

_Camarin._ Do your will. I'll put no more
To the guilt I bear, or to the misery
That guilt has brought upon you.

_Amaury._ Coward!

_Camarin._ Strike!

_Amaury._ You play a part! (_Raves._) And 'tis that you may live
Still in the love that you a thief have stolen.
So, with your steel----!

_Camarin._ It stays within its sheath.

_Amaury._ Then I will not be thwarted though I must
Crush you as one a viper with his heel,
Though I must take your leper throat into
My hands and strangle life from it!
For the same sky you breathe I will not.
The sun that falls upon you shall not foul
My being--
Though I must go down into hell for it.

[_He starts, frenzied, to strike, but suddenly
staggers; then clasps at his throat, drops the
sword, and sinks down moaning._

_Yolanda._ His wound!

_Tremitus._ Aeih, aeih! at last.

_Yolanda._ Amaury! Oh!

[_Runs to him. He struggles to his feet._

Amaury! Amaury!

_Amaury._ Stand away from me.

[_She falls back; he laughs in derision._

I to believe her pure as my own mother!

_Vittia._ Had you but trusted me, Amaury.

_Amaury._ You?

[_Looks long at her._

Henceforth I will.

_Vittia._ And wholly?

_Amaury_ (_significantly_). She ... shall do it.

[_Starts into the castle._

_Yolanda_ (_dauntedly_). Amaury! what is this?

_Vittia._ That, ere a dawn,
Guileless Yolanda, you shall wed with him
Your paramour of Paphos----

_Yolanda._ Camarin?

_Vittia._ And from these gates be led wanton away.

[YOLANDA, _for a moment whelmed, tries to laugh
scorn; but, turning, her eye meets_ RENIER'S
_full of suspicion. He follows_ AMAURY
_meaningly into the castle._

CURTAIN

ACT III

THE SAME DAY

SCENE: _The Hall and loggia of Act I; but toward sunset,
and afar, on the flushed sea, are seen the fisher-boats
returnin