Nefertiti
… the journey would tire me.
Sethos
Nefertiti!
Menophis
(Steps between them. Nefertiti hesitates.) Let her alone. Since her eyes first opened to the sun she has been mine. A hundred future lives shall take our feet together. And she knows it. She plays with you—this singing, dancing. She lives with me. (Seizes her, all else forgotten.) Leave us together, Sethos. Go!
Nefertiti
I played with you. You know it. (To Menophis.) You had forgotten our appointment! I did it—for my love’s sake.
[Sethos shrinks from his sudden violence, startled, but keeps her hand.
Menophis