Alessa. Though you boasted love to me?
Hassan. Now, woman!
Alessa. Lady, I would have wed him—wed this toad!
[Stingingly.
Who'd kill the Paphian, too!
Hassan. Yes!
Alessa. Worm! with dust?
Heeling away from him?
[Alessa turns to her.
These words can wait on what may yet be helped.
This may undo me! First of all I should
Have seen Amaury! Now——!