University of Virginia Library

SCENE THE SECOND.

Mary.
Ma.
What fear oppresses me! Alas! ... if ever ...
But am I guilty? Thou, who knowest all things,
Knowest that I am not—Yet in my heart
I never had more horrible forebodings ...
What can they mean? ... And from this Murray's lips
What fulminating imprecations roll'd!—
A night so pregnant with dismay as this
I never knew till now ...