And claim’d me for her own. O Lord, how soon

‘Sweetheart’ and ‘Deary’ chang’d to ‘Apage!’

And flesh and blood to ice.

Ces. (aside). Alas! what boots it trying to forget

That which the very effort makes remember?

Ev’n now, ev’n now, methinks once more I see her

Turn to the window, not expecting me,

But to abjure all expectation,

And, as she moves away, saying, (methinks

I hear her,) ‘Cesar, come when come you may,