Will be a yard of steel between thy ribs,

And thou shalt have it!

Mous.Thank you kindly, sir!

[Exit Mousta; Florian sits dejectedly by fountain.

Hil. ’Twas he that spake to me! How can I doubt?

Are there two such as he? Oh, Heaven, is this

The senseless herald of a mind unstrung?

Let me be sure.

He spake of me, who long had mourned him dead—

He told how, shrouded from my gaze last night,