Where is Molossus? Boy, if you leave these dogs unpunished——
Andromache.
Nay, curse him not! Oh, my lord, if you have ever loved him, curse him not! Let him be free; he will do all that is well.
Pyrrhus.
[Faintly.] Andromache? Ay, then, so be it. It is the same in the end. I am glad I did not slay you, Andromache. [Dies.
Hermione.
[As before.] His blood is trickling into the mark of the footprint of Thetis! [Wildly.] Ah, drag him away, or it will be a curse upon us! He must not die at the altar!
Orestes.
I never slew him. I will not touch a man dying at an altar. Andromache, touch him not; he will haunt you.
Hermione.