(Glancing to where Mama Ccacca went out.)

What a serpent! What a puma!

ACT III

SCENE 1

The Pampa Moroni, a street in Cuzco. Enter RUMI-ÑAUI (L.)[54] in a long black cloak with a train, and PIQUI CHAQUI (R.), meeting each other.

RUMI-ÑAUI.
Whence, Piqui Chaqui, comest thou?
Dost thou here seek Ollantay’s fate?

PIQUI CHAQUI.
Cuzco, great lord, is my birthplace;
I hasten back unto my home.
I care not more to pass my days
In dismal and profound ravines.

RUMI-ÑAUI.
Tell me, Ollantay—what does he?

PIQUI CHAQUI.
He is busy now entangling
An already entangled skein.

RUMI-ÑAUI.
What skein?