ANTONIO: Where, Paula?
PAULA: Blind all day she moaned and wept.
ANTONIO: My Helena!
PAULA: And when the sun was gone,
Came quiet, kissed me--O, go seek her, sir!
ANTONIO: Kissed you----?
PAULA: Then to me gave these jewels. O!
And darkly cloaked stole out into the night.
CHARLES: Alone?
ANTONIO: Whither, quick, whither?
PAULA: Ah, I do
Not know: but she----
ANTONIO: Pray, pray, tell out your dread.
PAULA: Last night she said, "My heart is in my lord
Antonio's to beat or cease with it."
I learned her words--they seemed so pretty.
Charles (_gasping_): Ah!