Will he not——hush!
Aymer enters. (They look on each other for a moment without speaking.)
Rai. (suppressing his emotion.) So brothers meet! You know
Wherefore I come?
Aym. It cannot be; ’tis vain.
Tell me not of it!
Rai. How! you have not heard?
(Turning from him.)
He hath so shut the world out with his dreams,
The tidings have not reach’d him! or perchance