Because they love their lives too! Yet, he's right:
'Tis strange they should, when such as he may put them
To hazard at his pleasure. Oh, thou world!
Thou art indeed a melancholy jest![Exit Gabor.
Scene II.—The Apartment of Werner, in the Palace.
Enter Josephine and Ulric.
Jos. Stand back, and let me look on thee again!
My Ulric!—my belovéd!—can it be—
After twelve years?
Ulr.My dearest mother!