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 SCENE XIII

Doña Ángela, Inés, Duchess, and Edward.

The three women in the middle of the stage, Edward listening at the closet door.

. Oh, pity, Heaven, and save him.

. [Embracing her.] You are right. Let us only think of him, pray for him alone.

. It is a sacred duty for you to place poor Don Lorenzo's welfare before your own happiness; but in any case, it is no less a sacred obligation to conform to a higher will than ours. [Pause.]

. [To Edward.] What are they saying? Tell us, Edward, what they are saying.

. He is talking; his words are cold and severe, but not in the least uncertain or troubled. [Edward returns to the door.]

. What anguish! What anxiety! Death were preferable to this torture.

. What can it matter what my father says since he is already judged beforehand?

. Don't say such a thing, child.

. I say it because I feel it to be true, and I see it in the faces of those who are now his judges.

. But what—what is it you see?

. In those persons the monomania of specialists.

. In Tomás?

. Yes his scientific opinions—whatever they may be—his own special follies

. But in me, Inés? 190