And softly placed the chaplet on her head.

A colour, which has colour’d all my life,

Flush’d in her face; then I was call’d away;

And presently all rose, and so departed.

Ah! she had thrown my chaplet on the grass,

And there I found it.

[Lets his hands fall, holding wreath despondingly.

Lady Giovanna (after pause).

How long since do you say?

Count.