As sad as when I left you years ago.

Blan. ‘As sad?—as when you left me years ago’—

I understand you not—am not aware

I ever saw you till to-day.

Mend. Ah, Blanca,

Have pity!

Blan. Nay, Don Mendo, let us cease

A conversation, uselessly begun,

To end in nothing. If your memory,

Out of some dreamt-of fragments of the past,