Ay, my lord.

[Gycia tottering back. Irene slides back the panel, and Gycia sets her back against it, half fainting; Irene regarding her with triumph.

Gycia. Was that my husband? and those men around him

Soldiers of Bosphorus, to whom he gave

Some swift command? What means it all, ye saints?

What means it? This the husband of my love,

Upon whose breast I have lain night by night

For two sweet years—my husband whom my father

Loved as a son, whose every thought I knew,