Doge. My time is hers.

Enter Marina.

Mar.‍My Lord, if I intrude—

Perhaps you fain would be alone?

Doge.‍Alone!

Alone, come all the world around me, I

Am now and evermore. But we will bear it.

Mar. We will, and for the sake of those who are,

Endeavour——Oh, my husband!

Doge.‍Give it way:70