Vardos. Still watching for a signal, Senorita?
Dolores. (Turning to Vardos) Yes, Vardos. Have you any news?
Vardos. Nothing. Here's the basket of food untouched as usual. This is the fifteenth night.
Dolores. Once tonight I thought I saw a light in the tower, Vardos.
Vardos. If you did, Senorita, it was an unblessed flame.
Dolores. You haven't given up hope, have you, Vardos?
Vardos. I gave up hope when the Prince went into the castle. Tonight I waited till an hour past sundown, and twice I called. Once a wail came back to me. It sounded like a sigh of the damned. When I called the second time, something moved in the turret of the keep, like a man waving; and my heart leaped for joy. Then, with a harsh cry, a black, ugly bird flew from the turret straight toward where the sun had set—on my left, mind you, the sinister side, the left, the left! (Castanets heard off stage, left.)
Dolores. Oh, if her Highness were only here.
Vardos. What can she do?
Dolores. She would go straight to the castle, and will Segura have it said that they let her go alone as they did the Prince?