Valdez. You pressed upon him too abruptly, father!
[[828]] The fate of one, on whom, you know, he doted. [145]

Ordonio. O Heavens! I?—I doted?
Yes! I doted on him. [Ordonio walks to the end of the stage, Valdez follows.

Teresa. I do not, can not, love him. Is my heart hard?
Is my heart hard? that even now the thought
Should force itself upon me?—Yet I feel it! 150

Monviedro. The drops did start and stand upon his forehead!
I will return. In very truth, I grieve
To have been the occasion. Ho! attend me, woman!

Alhadra (to Teresa). O gentle lady! make the father stay,
Until my lord recover. I am sure, 155
That he will say he is my husband's friend.

Teresa. Stay, father! stay! my lord will soon recover.

Ordonio (as they return, to Valdez). Strange, that this Monviedro
Should have the power so to distemper me!

Valdez. Nay, 'twas an amiable weakness, son! [160]

Monviedro. My lord, I truly grieve——

Ordonio. Tut! name it not.
A sudden seizure, father! think not of it.
As to this woman's husband, I do know him.
I know him well, and that he is a Christian.