made peace
With thee?

ISEULT.
Made peace with me! I told
Thee, Dinas, that he has stirred up the past
With gloomy words and threatened me. He spoke
Forebodingly of coming days--; I fear
His words and know not what is brewing o'er
My head!

DINAS.
Denovalin has threatened thee!
That bodes no good!

ISEULT.
What think'st thou, Dinas? Speak!

DINAS.
It makes me almost fear that I was not
Deceived this morn as through the mist I rode.

ISEULT.
Oh Dinas!

DINAS.
For I saw a man who rode
As secretly, and stole along the way
Concealed in the murky mists of dawn.
I--

ISEULT.
Dinas!

DINAS.
Tristram's in the land, Iseult!

ISEULT.
Oh Dinas, speak! (Softly.) My friend. Lord Tristram came
At dawn today--? The man who loved me so!
My dearest Lord--! Oh Dinas, Dinas, didst

(recovering herself)

Thou speak to him?

DINAS (sternly).
Twice called I him. He fled.

ISEULT.
Oh, why didst thou not call him in my name?
He would have stood thee answer then, for that
He swore to me he'd do, by day or night
At any place....

DINAS.
I called him in thy name,
And yet he fled away.

ISEULT.
He fled from thee?

(Angrily.)

It was not Tristram then! How dar'st thou speak
Such slander 'gainst my Lord!

DINAS.
I swore that I
Would be thy friend, and for thy sake, Iseult,
His friend. But now I say Lord Tristram broke
The oath he swore to thee, and on this day
Hath wronged thee grievously, Iseult.

ISEULT (heavily and brokenly).
The spouse
Of Isot of the Fair White Hands appeared
To thee, say'st thou, and broke his parting oath.
The last he swore to Iseult Goldenhaired?

PARANIS (enters in ill-suppressed excitement).
Lord Dinas, from King Mark I come. He bids
Thee come to him straightway with all despatch,
For in the name of justice calls he thee.

ISEULT.
Oh Dinas, Dinas, Tristram broke his oath--!
Lord Tristram broke his oath--!

DINAS.
And dost thou know,
My queen, that we must now attempt to ward
The consequences of King Mark's decr