(A pause.)

Away! God or no God, I’ll save myself!

(He runs forward wildly and falls into the pit.)

(Silence.)

Icelin. Down there. Down. Down. Mark now, I pushed him not.

He ran from me and fell. You saw it. I knew

That he would die like this. You called me child.

Am I so young then? I am no child—a woman!

See with what skill I’ve brought you to your fortune.

Now I shall wear those silks and damascenes,