Diego. Hark, I hear a noise—

[The noise of the opening of a door. Diego runs to the door, looks into the next room, then comes running to Octavio.

Diego. O sir, w' are lost! I sea two female giants
Coming most terribly upon us.

Don O. Away, you fearful fool——

Enter Camilla and Porcia, the one with a key, the other with a candle.

Por. I'm confident nobody saw us pass
From th' other house.

Cam. However, let us go through my brother's quarter,
And open the back-door into the street;
'Tis good in all events t' have a retreat
More ways than one. [A door claps behind, and both look back.

Por. O heavens, our passage is cut off!
The wind has shut the door through which we came.

Cam. The accident's unlucky: 'tis a spring lock,
That opens only on the other side.

Por. Let's on the faster, and make sure of th' other—