Thomas Bailey Aldrich
ACT I, SCENE I
Characters: Count of Lara, a poor nobleman; Beatrice, his wife Miriam, a maid, who personates a page.
Scene: Count of Lara's villa. A balcony overlooking the garden.
Lara.
The third moon of our marriage, Beatrice!
It hangs in the still twilight, large and full,
Like a ripe orange.
Beatrice.
Like an orange? yes,
But not so red, Count. Then it has no stem.