[Turns away.

And dallying is the feebleness of fools.

Bianca.

And will lies save it—tho they be for Heaven!—

To one who nigh has lost her soul for you?

[When he does not answer, more penetratively.

We have been friends, Osio, long been friends,

And, woman that I am, I would 'twere more,

But in this I suspect—

Osio.