[_Pause_: _during which he gazes on her as it were entranced_. RECHA. But to me You still appear the same you then appeared. [_Another like pause_—_till she resumes_, _in order to interrupt him_. Now tell me, knight, where have you been so long? It seems as might I ask—where are you now? TEMPLAR. I am—where I perhaps ought not to be. RECHA. Where have you been? where you perhaps ought not— That is not well. TEMPLAR. Up—how d’ye call the mountain? Up Sinai. RECHA. Oh, that’s very fortunate. Now I shall learn for certain if ’tis true— TEMPLAR. What! if the spot may yet be seen where Moses Stood before God; when first— RECHA. No, no, not that. Where’er he stood, ’twas before God. Of this I know enough already. Is it true, I wish to learn from you that—that it is not By far so troublesome to climb this mountain As to get down—for on all mountains else, That I have seen, quite the reverse obtains. Well, knight, why will you turn away from me? Not look at me? TEMPLAR. Because I wish to hear you. RECHA. Because you do not wish me to perceive You smile at my simplicity—You smile That I can think of nothing more important To ask about the holy hill of hills: Do you not? TEMPLAR. Must I meet those eyes again? And now you cast them down, and damp the smile— Am I in doubtful motions of the features To read what I so plainly hear—what you So audibly declare; yet will conceal?— How truly said thy father “Do but know her!” RECHA. Who has—of whom—said so to thee? TEMPLAR. Thy father Said to me “Do but know her,” and of thee. DAYA. And have not I too said so, times and oft. TEMPLAR. But where is then your father—with the sultan? RECHA. So I suppose. TEMPLAR. Yet there? Oh, I forget, He cannot be there still. He is waiting for me Most certainly below there by the cloister. ’Twas so, I think, we had agreed, Forgive, I go in quest of him. DAYA. Knight, I’ll do that. Wait here, I’ll bring him hither instantly. TEMPLAR.