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SCENE V.

Thekla and Max. Piccolomini.

THEKLA

(As soon as the Countess is out of sight, in a
quick, low voice to Piccolomini)

Don't trust them! They are false!

MAX.

⁠Impossible!

THEKLA.

Trust no one here but me. I saw at once,

They had a purpose.

MAX.

⁠Purpose! but what purpose?

And how can we be instrumental to it?

THEKLA.

I know no more than you; but yet, believe me:

There's some design in this! to make us happy,
To realize our union—trust me, love!
They but pretend to wish it.

MAX.

⁠But these Tertskies——

Why use we them at all? Why not your mother?
Excellent creature! She deserves from us
A full and filial confidence.

THEKLA.

⁠She doth love you,

Doth rate you high before all others—but—
But such a secret—she would never have
The courage to conceal it from my father.

For