[Exit with Francisco.


Scene VI.—Preciosa’s bed-chamber. Midnight. She is sleeping in an arm-chair, in an undress; Dolores watching her.

Dol. Poor girl, she sleeps at last; yet hardly sleeps;

She lives her sorrows o’er again in dreams,

Doubling her grief.

Pre. I must go hence, I say!

Give me my cloak.

Dol. She murmurs in her sleep.

Pre. Go tell them that I cannot dance to-night⁠—