Sweet as old hours remembered.

Guenevere (very softly)

Sweet as those

To come.

Launcelot (madly embracing her)

Ah, Guenevere, to suffer so.

I am yours, yours, only yours—(abruptly breaking away)—O God, have pity!

Guenevere

Why should we not take what there is of joy,

So little as there is, so little?