SCENE III.--ADELHEID'S _room. Night_. ADELHEID. FRANZ.

FRANZ: Oh, let me stay yet a little while--here, where I live. Without is death!

ADELHEID: Already you hesitate? Then give me back the phial. You played the hero, but you are only a boy; A man who wooes a noble woman stakes his life, honour, virtue, happiness! Boy, leave me!

FRANZ: No, you are mine. And if I get your freedom I get my own. With a firm hand I shall pour the poison into my master's cup. Farewell. [_He embraces her and hurries away_.