th it."
I learned her words--they seemed so pretty.

Charles (_gasping_): Ah!

ANTONIO: Why do you gasp?--Paula----

CHARLES: If she--the cliff!

ANTONIO: The cliff! The--?
(_Staggers dizzily, then rushes out._

CHARLES: Let one go with him--bring
Us what hath passed--hath passed.
(_A SOLDIER goes._

PAULA (_with uncontrollable terror_): My lady!

CHARLES: Child,
I cannot bear thy voice upon my heart!
It hath a tone--a clutch--no more, no more!
I cannot bear it! We must wait. No hap
Has been--no hap, I think--surely no hap.

_Enter BARDAS deprecatingly, followed by ANTONIO._

BARDAS: Antonio! not in the sea? You live?

ANTONIO: I say, where is she?

BARDAS: You are mortal?

ANTONIO (_groaning with impatience_): O
This utter superstition! (_Pricking his arm._) Is it not blood?

BARDAS: You live! and live? but let her think your death!
You let her! still devising for yourself
Safety and preservation!

ANTONIO: She's not safe?

BARDAS: O, safe--if she had shrift!

CHARLES (_hoarsely_): The dead are so!

BARDAS: Ay, so.

ANTONIO: And none above the grave?--no answer?

BARDAS: She came unto the cliff amid her tears--
Her being all into one want was fused,
You down the wave to follow.

ANTONIO: But you grasped----?
You held her?

BARDAS: Yes----

ANTONIO: Then--well?

BARDAS: She had a phial.

ANTONIO: God! God!

BARDAS: Out of her breast she drew it swift,
And instant of it drank.

ANTONIO: Drank? and she fell?
No?--no?--Ah but you dashed it from her lips?
She did but taste?----

BARDAS: Only: and then----

ANTONIO: More? more?

BARDAS: "Is 't not enough," she pled to me, "Enough
That I must wander the cold way of death
Unto his arms? Go hence! There is no rest.
I will go down and clasp him, drift with him
To some unhabited gray ocean vale
God hath forgot. There will we dwell away
From destiny and weeping, from despair!"

CHARLES: You left her?

BARDAS: As I held her piteous hand
Came revellers who saw us--jested her
Of taking a new love. She broke my