Amaury (angrily.) Priest, be brief!
Moro (before them; as Camarin takes Yolanda's hand).
The Church invests me and the powers of
This island here to make you man and wife.
Be joined, ye who have sinned,
In soul, peace and repentances for ever.
(He signs the cross. Yolanda stands dazed. A silence. Then a shuddering cry and all turn toward the balcony, where Alessa bursts, pale, wild, and striving to speak.)
Yolanda (with dread, awe, premonition). Alessa!
Alessa. Lady Yolanda! you have wed him?
Yolanda (pausing.) Yes.
Alessa. Lady Berengere is dead.
Yolanda. No!... No!
(Chokes rebelliously.)
It cannot be! mother! cannot! awake her!
And tell her I have wed him! mother! cannot!