What are you saying? It is so monstrous I must laugh or scream if I go on listening to you. [shakes Phedro by the arm] Come out with it. Where has she gone? But she is in bed! Where else?
[He runs back to the cart, and is heard calling frantically. The voice of Ursus answers him. Phedro stands listening, an evil smile contorting his mouth.]
Gwymplane [off stage]
Dea!
[There is no answer.]
Gwymplane
[Re-entering hurriedly. Goes up to Phedro in a threatening manner.]
I do not understand. There is something moving around me that is foul and stealthy. Tell me what it is or I'll make you feel as if you were falling down an abyss of knives.
Phedro