As all my soul is! But, Yolanda, you--!

_Yolanda._ Yes, something must be done--something be done.

[CAMARIN _goes to the curtains and returns._

_Berengere._ The shame ... the shame ... the shame!

_Yolanda._ There yet is
time.

_Berengere._ You can deliver! you are innocent.

_Yolanda._ Perhaps. Let me but think.--He came----

_Berengere._ You see?
There is escape? a way from it?

_Yolanda._ Perhaps.
He came after your words ... yes ... could not see
Here in the dimness ... but has only _heard_
Sir Camarin ...

_Berengere._ I do not know!

_Yolanda._ Go, in ...
Up to your chamber and be as asleep.
There is a way--I think--dim, but a way.
Go to your chamber; for there yet may be
Prevention!

_Berengere._ I--yes, yes.

_Yolanda._ There is a way.

[BERENGERE _goes._

Strength now to walk it! strength unfaltering.

_Camarin._ What do you purpose?

_Yolanda._ Here to take her place,
Here at the lowest of her destiny.

_Camarin._ I do not understand.

_Yolanda._ But wholly shall.
Clasp me within your arms; he must believe
'Tis I and not his wife you have unhallowed,
Your arms about me, though they burn! and breathe me
Thirst of unbounded love as unto her.

[_He clasps her, and they wait._

Ah, it is he!

_Camarin._ No.

_Yolanda._ Yes, the words; at once!

_Camarin_ (_hoarsely_). With all my body and soul-breath I
love you,

[RENIER _enters with_ MORO.

And all this night is ours for ecstasy.
Kiss me with quenchless kisses, and embrace
Me with your beauty, till----

[YOLANDA _with a cry, as of fear, looses herself,
pretending to discover_ RENIER, _who is struck
rigid._

_Moro._ My lord, my lord!...
It is Yolanda.

_Renier._ Then--

[_The dagger falls from him._

Why, then--Amaury!

[YOLANDA_, realising, stunned, sinks back to the divan._

CURTAIN

ACT II