FROM 'THE GREAT GALEOTO'
[In the scenes which are here cited the poison of slander begins to work. Don Severo, uttering the anonymous gossip of the world, has implanted in the mind of his middle-aged brother Don Julian the first suspicion of the honor of his young wife Teodora and the loyalty of his adopted son Ernest. Teodora, who has been warned by Mercedes, Don Severo's wife, overhears the accusing words of her brother-in-law, who is talking with her husband in an inner apartment; and horror-struck, is about to fly from the room.]
Julian [inside]—Let me go!
Mercedes [inside]—No, for Heaven's sake!
Julian—It is they. I will go!
Teodora [to Ernest]—Go! go!
Severo [to Ernest]—You shall give me satisfaction for this!
Ernest—I will not refuse it.
Enter Julian, pale and disordered; wounded and seemingly in a dying condition, supported by Mercedes. Don Severo stations himself at the right, Teodora and Ernest remain in the background.
Julian—Together! Where are they going?—Stop them! They shun my presence! Traitors!