SWANWHITE. No, but I heard—it was my mother.
PRINCE. Come, fly with me!
SWANWHITE. No, that we mustn't!—Patience! We'll meet in our dreams!—But this will not be possible unless—you love me more than anybody else on earth! Oh, love me—you, you, you!
PRINCE. My king, my loyalty——
SWANWHITE. Your queen, your heart—or what am I?
PRINCE. I am a knight!
SWANWHITE. But I am not. And therefore—therefore do I take you—my Prince——
She puts her hands up to her mouth with a gesture as if she were throwing a whispered name to him.
PRINCE. Oh, woe! What have you done?
SWANWHITE. I gave myself to you through your own name—and with me, carried on your wings, yourself came back to you! Oh—— [Again she whispers the name.