Berengere. Yes.

Renier (slowly). And we might be
As those that wedded love?

Berengere. Perhaps.

Renier. That—love!

[A pause.

Then it shall be, at once.... But no, I first
Have a confession.

Berengere. You?

Renier. A pang!—For days

[Takes her hand.

Before I found Yolanda on the breast
Of Camarin of Paphos——
I suffered in the furnace of suspicion
The fume and suffocation of the thought
That you were the guilty one—you my own wife.