As wells drink in November, when it rains.

Pre. (having read the letters.) Is this a dream? O, if it be a dream

Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!

Repeat thy story! Say I’m not deceived!

Say that I do not dream! I am awake;

This is the gipsy camp; this is Victorian,

And this his friend, Hypolito! Speak—speak!

Let me not wake and find it all a dream!

Vic. It is a dream, sweet child! a waking dream,

A blissful certainty—a vision bright