Perdition! all 's discovered! Thorold finds
—That the Earl's greatest of all grandmothers
Was grander daughter still—to that fair dame
Whose garter slipped down at the famous dance! [Goes.
Mil. Is she—can she be really gone at last?
My heart! I shall not reach the window. Needs
Must I have sinned much, so to suffer!
She lifts the small lamp which is suspended before the Virgin's image in the window, and places it by the purple pane.
There!
[She returns to the seat in front.