DOM. (catching both her hands.) At last!
BELLA. I received your note just in time. (exit Darblee.) I told father I wished to go to confession, so he accompanied me to the Church. I must get back before he returns. And oh, what do you think?
DOM. I love you.
BELLA. A most delightful thing has happened.
DOM. You love me.
BELLA. Be serious. Our love seems more hopeless than ever.
DOM. What!
BELLA. I said seems. There is a suitor for my hand whom father insists that I shall marry and father himself is more inveterate than ever against the men he calls pirates.
DOM. But you?