God shall decide, ...
For if she does not know
My arms from his, then, it shall be a sign
That to them and my bed ... she was predestined.
[The dark grows. He turns soon to go, and the curtain falls.... But rises again at once and it is midnight; with only dim lights from the silent, sleeping city. As it does so Porzia with Marina comes out of the house. They pause and listen, Marina half-anxiously.
Porzia (drawing free).
Return and have no fear, he soon will come,
And bade me be alone there in the bower.
The night is like a spell to draw him to me.
Marina.