Cam. What news, dear Isabella? methinks there's something chearful in your looks may give a trembling lover hopes. If you have comfort for me, speak, for I indeed have need of it.
Isab. Were your wants yet still greater than they are, I bring a plentiful supply.
Cam. O Heav'ns! is it possible?
Isab. New mysteries are out, and if you can find charms to wean Lorenzo from your sister, no other obstacle is in the way to all your wish.
Cam. Kind messenger from Heaven, speak on.
Isab. Know then, that you are daughter to Alvarez.
Cam. How! daughter to Alvarez?
Isab. You are: The truth this moment's come to light; and till this moment he, altho' your father, was a stranger to it; nay, did not even know you were a woman. In short, the great estate, which has occasion'd these uncommon accidents, was left but on condition of a son; great hopes of one there was, when you destroy'd 'em, and to your parents came a most unwelcome guest: To repair the disappointment, you were exchang'd for that young Camillo, who few months after dy'd. Your father then was absent, but your mother quick in contrivance, bold in execution, during that infant's sickness, had resolv'd his death shou'd not deprive her family of those advantages his life had given it; so order'd things with such dexterity, that once again there past a change between you: of this (for reasons yet unknown to me) she made a secret to her husband, and took such wise precautions, that 'till this hour 'twas so to all the world, except the person from whom I now have heard it.
Cam. This news indeed affords a view of no unhappy termination; yet there are difficulties still may be of fatal hindrance.
Isab. None, except that one I just now nam'd to you; for to remove the last, know I have already unfolded all, both to Alvarez and Don Felix.