Messenger
Has been given, and cannot change.
Lydia
Though it concern the life of one who was his enemy?
Messenger
The Queen bid me assure you. He has given her his promise. It will not alter.
Lydia
(Whispers.) Then take this message back to her who sent you: To one who comes hither to-night when the moon is high enough to cast a shadow I will reveal what I have promised to reveal. In return I claim the boon the conqueror has sworn—through her—to give me.
Messenger