Fontanares
Quinola! And in what a livery!

Quinola
The livery of success, for you are to be freed.

Fontanares
Free? And to pass from hell to heaven in an instant?

The Duke of Olmedo
As martyrs do.

The Grand Inquisitor
Sir, do you dare to say such words in this place!

The Duke of Olmedo
I am charged by the king to take out of your custody this man, and
will answer for him to the Holy Inquisition.

The Grand Inquisitor
What a mistake!

Quinola
Ah! you would like to boil him in your cauldrons of oil! Many thanks!
His cauldrons are going to carry us 'round the world--like this. (He
twirls his hat.)

Fontanares
Embrace me, my friend, and tell me how--

The Duke of Olmedo
Say not a word here--

Quinola
Yes (he points to the Inquisitor), for here the walls have ears. Come.
And you (speaking to the duke) take courage. You are pale, and I must
give to you a tinge of color; but I know how to do it.

(Scene curtain.)

SCENE TWELFTH

(Palace gallery as in first scene.)

The Duke of Olmedo, the Duke of Lerma, Fontanares and Quinola.

The Duke of Olmedo
We have come just in time!

The Duke of Lerma
You were not wounded then?

The Duke of Olmedo
Who said I was? Would the favorite of the king ruin me? And should I
be here, as you see me, if I were dead? (To Quinola) Stand close and
hold me up.

Quinola (to Fontanares)
This is a man worthy of your love.

Fontanares
Who would not envy such a one? Yet how seldom is occasion given to
show one's love.

Quinola
Spare us, good sir, all this rigmarole about love, in the presence of
the king; for the king, hark you--

A page
The King!

Fontanares
Come on, and let all our thoughts be for Marie!

Quinola (noticing that the Duke of Olmedo is fainting)
How are you? (He puts a flask to his nostrils.)

SCENE THIRTEENTH

The same persons, the King, the Queen, the Captain of the Guards, the
Grand Inquisitor, the Marchioness of Mondejar, the President of the
Council of Castile and the whole court.

Philip II. (to the Captain of the Guards)
Has our man arrived?

The Captain
The Duke of Olmedo, whom I met on the palace steps, has at once obeyed
the commands of the king.

The Duke of Olmedo (falling on one knee)
Will the king deign to pardon a delay--unpardonable?

Philip II. (raising him by his wounded arm)
I was told you were dying--(he glances at the marchioness)--of a wound
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