RECHA.
How, you had cares, and were more covetous
Of them than of your life?
TEMPLAR.
(who has been viewing her with wonder and perturbation).
Thou best of beings,
How is my soul ’twixt eye and ear divided!
No: ’twas not she I snatched from amid fire:
For who could know her and forbear to do it?—
Indeed—disguised by terror—
[Pause: during which he gazes on her as it were entranced.
RECHA.
But to me
You still appear the same you then appeared.
[Another like pause—till she resumes, in order to interrupt him.
Now tell me, knight, where have you been so long?
It seems as might I ask—where are you now?