Of speaker and of hearer. Yet once more,

Speak.

Ser. To what purpose? I can but repeat

What I have told your sister, and she you,—

What on the sudden waking from my swoon,

I, who had thought you dead so long, Alvaro,

Spoke in my terror, suddenly seeing you

Alive, before me.

Alv. I were better, then,

Dead than alive?