SCENE V.—ORPHISE, ÉRASTE.
ER. (Seeing Orphise, and going to meet her). How long you have been, Madam, and how I suffer …
ORPH. Nay, nay, do not leave such a pleasant conversation. You are wrong to blame me for having arrived too late. (Pointing to Orante and Climène, who have just left). You had wherewithal to get on without me.
ER. Will you be angry with me without reason, and reproach me with what
I am made to suffer? Oh, I beseech you, stay …
ORPH. Leave me, I beg, and hasten to rejoin your company.
SCENE VI.—ÉRASTE, alone.
Heaven! must bores of both sexes conspire this day to frustrate my dearest wishes? But let me follow her in spite of her resistance, and make my innocence clear in her eyes.