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 Ellida.

[Taken aback.] What is this? How strangely you speak to me![1] Who is it you are looking for?

The Stranger.

You know I am looking for you.

Ellida.

[Starts.] Ah! [Gazes at him a moment, staggers backwards, and breaks out into a half-smothered shriek.] The eyes!—The eyes!

The Stranger.

Well,—are you beginning to recognise me at last? I knew you at once, Ellida.

Ellida.

The eyes. Don't look at me like that? I will call for help.

The Stranger.

Hush, hush! Don't be afraid. I will do you no harm.

Ellida.

[Holds her hands over her eyes.] Don't look at me like that, I say!

The Stranger.

[Leans his arms upon the garden fence.] I came with the English steamer.

Ellida.

[Glances shrinkingly at him.] What do you want with me?

1 He has addressed her, as he does throughout, by the familiar du—"thou." She always uses the formal De in speaking to him.