Infanta (to Leonora). Go and converse with her in that gallery [yonder].
Leonora. Do you wish to continue in dreamland?
Infanta. No, I wish, only, in spite of my grief, to compose myself [lit. to put my features a little more at leisure]. I follow you.
[Leonora goes out along with the Page.]
Scene III.—The Infanta (alone).
Just heaven, from which I await my relief, put, at last, some limit to the misfortune which is overcoming [lit. possesses] me; secure my repose, secure my honor. In the happiness of others I seek my own. This bridal is equally important to three [parties]; render its completion more prompt, or my soul more enduring. To unite these two lovers with a marriage-tie is to break all my chains and to end all my sorrows. But I tarry a little too long; let us go to meet Chimène, and, by conversation, to relieve our grief.
Scene IV.—Count de Gormas and Don Diego (meeting).
Count. At last you have gained it [or, prevailed], and the favor of a King raises you to a rank which was due only to myself; he makes you Governor of the Prince of Castile.
Don Diego. This mark of distinction with which he distinguishes [lit. which he puts into] my family shows to all that he is just, and causes it to be sufficiently understood, that he knows how to recompense bygone services.
Count. However great kings may be, they are only men [lit. they are that which we are]; they can make mistakes like other men, and this choice serves as a proof to all courtiers that they know how to [or, can] badly recompense present services.