Gal.

It's a strange world;

A woman loves her husband very much,

And cannot brook that I should love him too;

She fears he will be lonely till she comes,

And will not let me cheer his loneliness;

She bids him breathe his love to senseless stone,

And when that stone is brought to life—be dumb!

It's a strange world, I cannot fathom it.

Pyg. [aside].