THE QUEEN.
Yes, I laugh! [She laughs.] Yes, and you will laugh, too. Let me drop those hangings first. It seems to me all the time as if we were not alone, as if that frightful city could see and hear us.
[She drops the white curtain and comes back to Jane.
Now that he is gone, now that there is no more danger, I can tell you about it. Laugh, laugh, let us both laugh at those execrable people who drink blood! Oh, it is grand, Jane! Jane, you tremble for Fabiano? Be at ease, laugh with me, I tell you. Jane, the man they've got, the man who is going to die, the man they think is Fabiano—is not Fabiano.
[She laughs.]
JANE.
Not Fabiano?
THE QUEEN.
No!
JANE.