Pre. Why would you have this ring?

Vic. A traveler’s fancy⁠—

A whim, and nothing more. I would fain keep it

As a memento of the gipsy camp

In El Pardillo, and the fortune-teller,

Who sent me back to wed a widow’d maid.

Pray, let me have the ring.

Pre. No—never! never!

I will not part with it, even when I die;

But bid my nurse fold my pale fingers thus,