Charles Di Tocca: A Tragedy

McClure, Phillips & Co. New York 1903
Nardo, a boy, and Diogenes, a philosopher. A Captain of the Guard. Soldiers, Guests, Attendants, etc. Time: Fifteenth Century.
Scene .— The Island Leucadia. A ruined temple of Apollo near the town of Pharo. Broken columns and stones are strewn, or stand desolately about. It is night—the moon rising. Antonio, who has been waiting impatiently, seats himself on a stone. By a road near the ruins Fulvia enters, cloaked .
Antonio ( turning ): Helen——!
Fulvia: A comely name, my lord.
Antonio: Ah, you? My father's unforgetting Fulvia?
Fulvia: At least not Helena, whoe'er she be.
Antonio: And did I call you so?
Fulvia: Unless it is These stones have tongue and passion.
Antonio: Then the night Recalling dreams of dim antiquity's Heroic bloom worked on me.—But whence are Your steps, so late, alone?
Fulvia: From the Cardinal, Who has but come.
Antonio: What comfort there?