Not ill done, truly! Were not this a mind

To match one's mind with? Colombe! Let us wait!

I failed so, under that gray convent wall!

She comes.

Gui. The Duchess! Strangers, range yourselves!

[As the Duchess enters in conversation with Valence, Berthold and the Courtiers fall back a little.

Duch. Presagefully it beats, presagefully,

My heart: the right is Berthold's and not mine.

Val. Grant that he has the right, dare I mistrust

Your power to acquiesce so patiently