21.
"I love thee so" and "Ah I love thee se"
And "Thou hast based me, dost remember it?"
And ""Twas this night" and "Ah and woe is me!"
LIONARDO
What did Remigio?
PAOLA
He chased the shameless huzzy from his door.
(There is a long panse)
LIONARDO
(Rises slowly, speaks in quite another one)
No, I am not like Perugina, no!
For were this woman I, or like to me
Then she had done what I shall surely do.
Farewell.
PAOLA
Foor Lionardo! wilt thou kill thyself?
Well I maintain that I am worthy of it
LIONARDO
Verily! and therefore I must do it
With thine own danger here before thy door.
Then all will think, as will Remigio
That unrequited love has goaded me.
Yes I will do it: and for my own sake:
Forkebrs burne deep—and then besides all this
I die for you a little, for your sake.
PAOLA
For me?
LIONARDO
To free you, lest that any word or look