Kore. I can not answer. Come, Vera, to your grandmother.
[Exeunt Korelenko and Vera, right, centre]
Soph. O, why did he do it?
Adr. I can tell you.
Soph. Then why?
Adr. Because he believed—O, Sophie, beloved, before I speak, look at me with the love in your eyes as I saw it first. I did not know it was for me then. Let me see it now while I know you are mine—mine! Yes, yes, you love me!
Soph. Ah, Adrian, I am afraid I love nothing else.
[Vasil covers his eyes with his arm]
Adr. And you will kiss me once?