GRACIOSA
He spared your life.
GUIDO
It is impossible to let him live.
GRACIOSA
But I think he only voiced a caprice—
GUIDO
I think so, too, but I know that all this madman's whims are ruthless.
GRACIOSA
But you have power—
GUIDO Power! I, who have attacked the Duke's person! I, who have done what your dead cousin merely planned to do!
GRACIOSA
Guido—!
GUIDO Living, this brain-sick beast will make of you his plaything—and, a little later, his broken, soiled and cast-by plaything. It is therefore necessary that I kill Duke Alessandro.
GRACIOSA moves away from him, and GUIDO rises.
GRACIOSA
And afterward—and afterward you must die just as Tebaldeo died!