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 : But whom’s the third for ?

voice (sings):

I from my husband unsuspected

Steal to another ’neath the moon;

When desire’s interdicted,

Doubly ’tis desired soon.

Ah, my heart is trembling,

Fainting, beating slow—

If my spouse should see me,

Should hearken, and should know.


 * What’s that? Columbine’s voice! My wife’s voice!

is for.
 * Now you know whom the third place

(tragically): A-ah! Traitor! A-ah! Demon! This is your friendship!


 * Be calm. Why, nothing’s happened yet!


 * It only wants that!


 * And if I were to say that it doesn’t even want that?


 * And you dare pretend that you love me!


 * I love you both. But you want it to be only you, and so you’re jealous.