KARL.
I have heard you! Now listen to me. You are my destiny.
SOPHIA.
Wretch!
KARL. I can not and I will not live without you. To secure, if not your love, at least the possession of your person, I have periled everything. You are mine by right, and I will have my own.
SOPHIA.
Yours by right!—
KARL.
Yes.
SOPHIA.
What right?
KARL.
The king gave you to me.
SOPHIA.
I was not his to give.
KARL.
You were his bondwoman.
SOPHIA.
And his bondwoman spurned you, as she ought!