OHANO. If Nijo's kiss can make me forget this fever within me, I want his kiss as I shall never want anything else in all of this life. I want it!!
[Approaching horse's hoofs are heard from off right.
ZAMA. Listen—the horse! Ohano, your lover do be coming!
OHANO. [Running to the window.] Already? He must have taken the short way through the cliffs.
ZAMA. Ah, child, do you not be excited as a bird in a storm-wind's blow?
OHANO. [Superbly, as she leans against window.] Yes, I await my hero!
ZAMA. He's stopped, child! He do be here! At last he comes back to my little Ohano!
OHANO. My hope comes! [With outstretched arms to right.] My Nijo!! Oh——!
[She had impulsively started to greet Nijo, but suddenly shrinks back.
ZAMA. What do be wrong—what?