ld this peerless wife. Your resolute spirit
May aid me much. How say you, is it well
That we have met?

IV:2:36 ORAN.
Right well. I will embark
Most heartily in this.

IV:2:37 SIDO.
With me at once.

IV:2:38 ORAN.
At once?

IV:2:39 SIDO.
No faltering. You have learned and know
Too much to spare you from my sight, good Oran.
With me at once.

IV:2:40 ORAN.
'Tis urgent; well at once,
And I will do good service, or I'll die.
For what is life unless to aid the life
Has aided thine?

IV:2:41 SIDO.
On then; with me no eye
Will look with jealousy upon thy step.

[Exeunt both.]

SCENE 3

A retired spot in the Gardens of the Palace.

[Enter the COUNTESS.]

IV:3:1 COUN.
Is't guilt, that I thus tremble? Why should I
Feel like a sinner? I'll not dare to meet
His flashing eye. O, with what scorn, what hate
His lightning glance will wither me. Away,
I will away. I care not whom he meets.
What if he love me not, he shall not loathe
The form he once embraced. I'll be content
To live upon the past, and dream again
It may return. Alas! were I the false one,
I could not feel more humbled. Ah, he comes!
I'll lie, I'll vow I'm vile, that I came here
To meet another, anything but that
I dared to doubt him. What, my Lord Sidonia!

[Enter SIDONIA.]

IV:3:2 SIDO.
Thy servant and thy friend. Ah! gentle lady,
I deemed this unused scene and ill-timed hour
might render solace welcome. He'll not come;
Ho crossed the mountains, ere the set of sun,
Towards Briviesca.

IV:3:3 COUN.
Holy Virgin, thanks!
Home, home!

IV:3:4 SIDO.
And can a hearth neglected cause
Such raptures?

IV:3:5 COUN.
I, and only I,