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Ellida.
[Breaks out.] Yes, think of it! The decision so near! The decision for all time!
Wangel.
and then to-morrow
Ellida.
Yes, to-morrow! Perhaps I shall have forfeited my true future!
Wangel.
Your true?
Ellida.
A whole, full life of freedom forfeited—forfeited for me! And perhaps—for him too.
Wangel.
[In a lower tone, seizing her by the wrist.] Ellida,—do you love this stranger?
Ellida.
Do I? Oh how can I tell! I only know that to me he is terrible, and that
Wangel.
and that?
Ellida.
[Tears herself away.]and that I feel as though my place were with him.
Wangel.
[Bows his head.] I begin to understand.
