Chapter 25

VAL. (_Coming out quickly_). Yes, yes; I will this night make some effort to speak to... Who is there?

ISA. (_To Valère_). No noise, Valère; I have forestalled you; I am Isabella.

SGAN. (_Aside_). You lie, minx; it is not she. She is too staunch to those laws of honour which you forsake; you are falsely assuming her name and voice.

ISA. (_To Valère_). But unless by the holy bonds of matrimony...

VAL. Yes; that is my only purpose; and here I make you a solemn promise that to-morrow I will go wherever you please to be married to you.

SGAN. (_Aside_). Poor deluded fool!

VAL. Enter with confidence. I now defy the power of your duped Argus; before he can tear you from my love, this arm shall stab him to the heart a thousand times.