BUTLER.

He comes
Too late.

[GORDON dashes himself against the wall.]

GORDON.

O God of mercy!

COUNTESS.

What too late?
Who will be here himself? Octavio
In Egra? Treason! Treason!—Where's the
Duke?

[She rushes to the Gallery.]

SCENE X

Servants run across the Stage, full of terror. The whole Scene must be spoken entirely without pauses.