COUNTESS (laughs).
Urgent for him, no doubt? but thou may'st wait.
WALLENST.
What is it?
COUNTESS.
Thou shalt be inform'd hereafter.
First let the Swede and thee be compromised.
[Exit SERVANT.]
WALLENST.
If there were yet a choice! if yet some milder
Way of escape were possible—I still
Will choose it, and avoid the last extreme.