Julian—You ask my pardon? Then you confess your guilt.
Ernest—No!
Julian—Yes!
Ernest—It is not that!
Julian—Then look into each other's eyes before me.
Severo—Julian!
Mercedes—Sir!
Julian [to Teodora and Ernest]—You are afraid, then? You do not love each other like brother and sister, then? If you do, prove it! Let your souls rise to your eyes and in my presence mingle their reflection there, that so I may see, watching them closely, if that brightness is the brightness of light or of fire. You too, Teodora—I will have it so. Come—both; nearer still!
[Forces Teodora to kneel before him, draws their faces together, and compels them to look at each other.]
Teodora [freeing herself by a violent effort]—Oh no!