Vittia. Stay! If you leave and do not choose at once—
[Sounds are heard at the gates.
Who's that?... (starts). Amaury?... You've expected him?
[The chains fall.
Your purpose, then! Is it now to renounce
And force him from you or to have me breathe
To Renier Lusignan the one word
That will transmute his wrong to madness?
Say it! For centuries have stained these walls
But never a wife; never—
Enter Berengere.
Yolanda. Mother?...
Berengere. Amaury
Has spurred to us, Yolanda, from his post,
And is below. But ... what has befallen?
[Looks from one to the other.
Yolanda. He comes here, mother?