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72 Nerfertiti ...the journey would tire me, Sethos Nefertiti! Menophis

(Steps between them. Nerertiti hesi- tates.) Let her alone. Since her eyes first opened to the sun she has been mine. A hundred future lives shall take our feet to- , gether. And she knows it. She plays with you—this singing, dancing. She dives with me. (Scizes her, all else forgotten.) Leave us together, Sethos. Go!

Nefertits I played with you. You know it. (To Menopuis.) You -had forgotten our ap- pointment! I did it—for my love’s sake. {Sernos shrinks from his sudden vio- lence, startled, but keeps her hand.

Menopius She has finished with you. Go!