(Enter Page.) A strange woman would see your Holiness.
(Enter Catherine wrapt in a cloak. She advances and throws the cloak off.)
Hild. Catherine!
Cath. Hildebrand!
Hild. ’Tis thou!
Cath. Yea, my Lord. Thy wife! (Kneeling at his feet.)
O, holy Father, by all the love that once
United our two hearts, I plead with thee,
Have mercy on the daughter of thy love.
Hild. My daughter! nay, Woman, not so, not so!