University of Virginia Library

Scene I.

—The Hall.
Enter Ulric and Olive.
Ol.
We seem forsaken of all things on earth.
If only she would wake to life again,
And be as one of us! Oh! I do hope,
Now the unearthly horror of the winds
Through those three miserable, endless days,
Is over, and the sea moans itself still,
She will no more sit gazing from the window,
And seeing nothing as she gazes. If
I speak to her, she rests her large eyes on me
Wildly and answers not, and if I kiss her
She does not heed . . . yet it was worse than all
When, like a frenzied angel, she would roll
Those awful organ peals into the rain
And thunder—

Enter Annabella.
An.
Did you see him? He is here!
He is come back!

Ul.
Come back! Where, where? How know you?

An.
In the yew-walk . . . I saw him . . . he is there!

[Exit.
Ol.
It is her fancy, Ulric! He would never
Have hidden from us!—how could he be there?

Ul.
We 'll follow her and see.

Ol.
Ah me; she looked
So wildly happy—her two eyes like stars!

Ul.
Olive, they say that light has shone each night,
Since Bernard left us.

Ol.
I should have laughed at that
Once . . . but we are so miserable now,
It gives me a heart-chill.

Ul.
Oh, 't is all folly.
Come to the yew-walk.

Ol.
Let me first go to her.

[Exeunt.