Filippo
Oh! I know!
That you would go with me today ascoillingly,
As three days since you would have followed me!
So be upon your way.
Beatrice
And when shall I return?
Filippo
Return?
To me? You do not comprehend me Beatrice!
never, never!
Beatrice
(Garing at him)
Never, never?
Filippo
Even to to uch your hand
And
Again, would make me shudder!
Rather than embrace you, now that I know you, for what you are
By Heaven, I would prefer to sleep with the departed spirits.
(Shudders)
Go! Oh! Go!
Beatrice
Can it be true, you send me forth like this?
she stands there. A cause)
(He turns from her.
Filippo
(Turning to her)
Why do you weep?
Beatrice
Because I love you so.
Filippo
Yes, just as when you broke your fan on that first evening,
And at that moment, behind you closed the garden gate,
In the deep silence, you stepped into theamow
Of approaching fate, and then — you wept — and wept
great stupid tears for a mere fan, as now you weil for me.
One is as serious to you, as the other
Therefore, fare you well.