PRIORESS

M’sieur, is this true?

[As Chaucer turns to the Prioress in a kind of blank dismay, enter, from the cellar, swathed in a long gown, the real Knight and the Friar.]

KNIGHT

[To Friar.]

Where?

[Friar points to Prioress; he advances.]

Eglantine!

PRIORESS

[Aghast at this apparition, runs to the priedieu.]