(As they retire, enter Valence with papers.)
Val. So must it be! I have examined these
With scarce a palpitating heart—so calm,
Keeping her image almost wholly off.
Setting upon myself determined watch,
Repelling to the uttermost his claims:
And the result is—all men would pronounce,
And not I, only, the result to be—
Berthold is heir; she has no shade of right
To the distinction which divided us,