[A noise is heard, as of people coming up stairs.
Blan. I hear some coming up stairs: should it be Don Zancho, I am not yet ready for him.—
[Aside.
I see we are likely to be interrupted here, [To Elvira.
Elvira, we shall be better in my closet. [Exit Blanca.
Elvi. Madam, I'll follow you.
What can she mean? since that she needs must think
I know the passion she herself[22] has for him.
[Elvira having stayed awhile behind, as she is going to follow Blanca, enter her father Don Pedro and Fulvio: she starts, and stands confounded; he, seeing her, draws out his dagger, and makes at her.
Don P. Vile stainer of my blood, have I here found thee?
[Elvira perceiving the door a little open, where Don Fernando is, flies thither, and gets in.
Don F. This makes it clear she saw me.