22.
Of mine unto your Lord revealed your gulle.
PAOLA
What say'st thon? What think'st thou that I fear?
LIONARDO
What many a wife ere now has
From him she has received. Greathe free again
The steel shall reach the heart of all thy care.
PAOLA
ta Staa Lionardo! Darest thou to say
My towardice will drive me to thy death?
LIONARDO
Thou art no ooward but would'st will to live.
That is the courage of the guilty one
PAOLA
Courage is to confess the guilt
Stay here.
LIONARDO
tied to
Paola--
(The sound of a horse's feet are heard in the
court below. They both start and listen.)
PAOLA
Hark, dost hear it?
LIONARDO
across from you
Tis he
your eyes sought mine.)
PAOLA
Then his longing was
Strenger than earthly law. He's come, he's come.
(She hastens to the edow.)
He is diamounting. Coms—I am ready.