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How is this? You are also changed, reverend Father. Shall I speak to him?

Prior. Speak thou to him.

Jer. (to Osterloo.) What is the matter with you, General? Has some sudden malady seized you?

Ost. (to Jerome.) Let me be alone with you, holy Prior; let me be alone with you instantly.

Jer. (pointing.) This is the Prior.—He would be alone with you, Father: he would make his confession to you.

Prior. I dare not hear him alone: there must be witnesses. Let him come with me to my apartment.

Jer. (to Osterloo, as they leave the grave.) Let me conduct you, Count. Come on, my Lord, why do you stop short?

Ost. Not this way—not this way, I pray you.

Jer. What is it you would avoid?

Ost. Turn aside, I pray you; I cannot cross over this.

Jer. Is it the grave you mean? We have left it behind us.

Ost. Is it not there? It yawns across our path, directly before us.

Jer. Indeed, my Lord, it is some paces behind.

Ost. There is delusion in my sight then; lead me as thou wilt. [