'T is last year's step, the Prince's voice!

D'O. I know.

(Enter Charles —D'Ormea retiring a little.)

Cha. Now wish me joy, Polyxena! Wish it me

The old way! [She embraces him.

There was too much cause for that!

But I have found myself again. What news

At Turin? Oh, if you but felt the load

I 'm free of—free! I said this year would end

Or it, or me—but I am free, thank God!