Enough: no further preface, I entreat you.
At once, out with it! Be it what it may,
It is not possible that it should torture me
More than this introduction. What have you
To say to me? Tell me the whole, and briefly!
COUNTESS.
You'll not be frighten'd—
THEKLA.
Name it, I entreat you.
COUNTESS.
It lies within your power to do your father
A weighty service—
THEKLA.
Lies within my power?