Speak out and tell what grief weighs down her soul.
Nurse: She tells her grief to none. Some secret woe860
She hides within her heart, and is resolved
To take her secret with her to the grave.
But speed thee to her; there is need of haste.
Theseus: Unbar the close-shut portals of my house.
[The doors are opened and Theseus encounters his wife just within.]
Theseus [to Phaedra]: My queen, is't thus thou dost receive thy lord,
And welcome back thy husband long desired?865
Nay, put away the sword from thy right hand,