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SCENE II.

—A Street before the Cathedral.
Raymond enters hastily, followed by Lorenzo and Christoval.
Lor.
Stay, Signor Lurker!
And tell me what clandestine correspondence
You carry on with this chaste sisterhood?

Ray.
That voice! Lorenzo, is it you, my friend?
Well met—I could not hope for this encounter;
Yet willingly refer me to your justice.
Say, is not that Don Christoval?

Chris.

The same. Come here in search of
my sister Miranda. I could have wish'd myself
better employment, than hunting after a capricious
woman.

Ray.
Lorenzo, you are prepossess'd, I see.
Go to my lodgings: there I will detail,
As truly as I do my sins to Heav'n,
All that has pass'd between me and your sister.

Lor.
Take heed, Don Raymond! By my life I swear,
If any indirect and treacherous means
Have warp'd my sister Agnes from her duty,—

Ray.
You shall behold my very secret soul;
And must be satisfied.

Chris.
We will be satisfied.

Lor.
Come then.—Don Raymond!—but you shall have hearing.

[Exeunt.