The change—my liege!—what change?

ALTOUM

In Turandot,

My daughter. Always till that time her mind

Was tender-mannered as her face is fair.

Till then, there was no creature living whom

She would have harmed, even with a thought of pain—

Least of all those who loved her. But that night,

Groping by moonlight from her rose garden

Into my war tent, half distractedly