_Mar._ Ah me! _Pal._ What means this insult? _Bl._ Forward, fellows. Take ye the lady to the cell I shewed, And bind her arms. _Pal._ Who dares? _Bl._ Fool, stand aside! 2520 Seest thou my sword? _Pal._ Ho! villain, die! } _Palicio springs on } Blasco suddenly, and _Bl._ God! I am slain. [_Falls._ } stabs him with dagger in } his left. Seizing Blasco’s _Pal._ And thou, } sword in his right, which Thinking to find me here unarmed, go thou! } he has disengaged from } the sling, he kills _Soldier._ Ah! } another with that; and } when the rest fly is [_Dies ... the rest fly._ } left standing with a } bloody weapon in each _Pal._ Two are escaped. } hand._ _Mar._ And one was Livio. _Pal._ What means this damnable design? _Mar._ Giovanni, I see, I know. Fly now—take thou the sword. Give me the dagger. Follow. I know the way. There will be none to stay thee. If there be, 2528 Serve them as Blasco. Come, come; follow quickly. [_Exit._ _Pal._ (_following_). Margaret, Margaret. [_Exit._ SCENE · 2 _Room in the Palace. MANUEL, disguised as priest, meeting ROSSO._ _ROSSO._ In good time, Manuel: welcome. All is well. _MANUEL._ Thank God. And doth she know? _Ros._ Ay, thou shalt hear. ’Twas Margaret’s doing: all night long she sat By Constance’ bed, and there with gentlest presence And soft accustomed voice most gradually She soothed and won the wandering spirit back. But, oh, the sweetest skill!—she, as she saw Constance take note of her, made no discovery, But spoke of thee and all things else, as if There never had been change: and that so well, 2540 That Constance, who lay gazing on the wall, And questioning of her error, whence it grew, Soon laid it on herself, and by and by Told Margaret of her dream, and asked how long She had lain so sick in bed; nor ever learned How real had her woe been, till she knew That all was over. _Man._ I thank God,—and thee, Rosso, thee too. Margaret has had some cause To blame herself,—to have helped in the repair Will ease her heart of much. May I see Constance? _Ros._ At once. But come prepared to find her weak. 2551