Charles: To Rome? You must?—I am under a spell.

Fulvia: We, thou and I, after the battle's foam
Or chase's tired return, often have breathed
The passionate deep hours away in rest
And sympathy.

Charles: Say on. Your voice—I marvel——

Fulvia: And at the dawn have looked and sighed, then slow
With quiet clasp of fingers turned apart.

Charles: You go?—But, on!—your tone—in it I feel——

Fulvia: Have we not fast been friends?

Charles: What hath your voice?

Fulvia: Such friends have we not been as grow up from
Eternity?

Charles: You say it, and I wake.

Fulvia: Such friends—till yesterday you——
Charles: Ah!