Charles: True, Fulvia—as titles go.

Fulvia: My lord——

Charles: Twice—but I'm not two lords.

Fulvia: To-night
I think you are. But quench your jests.

Charles: In tears?
And groans? Where borrow them?

Fulvia (turning away): So let it be.

Charles: Why do you say so be it and sigh as
Nought could again be well?

Fulvia: O——

Charles: Now you frown?

Fulvia: The hope you nurse, then, if it prove a pang
Of serpent bitterness——