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Monna Vanna 135
has a thousand dreams that take up all his mind, . .
and we have talked but a few times. The others have
always a desire in their eyes that will not suffer one to
tell them that one loves them and would fain know what
they have in their hearts. In your eyes, too, a longing
burns ; but it is not the same it does not affright me
nor fill me with loathing. I felt at once that I knew
you before I remembered that I had ever seen you. . . .
Vanna, awed by the character and personality
of this despised and hated outlaw, pleads with
him to come with her to Pisa under the protec
tion of herself and her husband. She is sure that
he will be safe with them, and that he will be
hailed as the redeemer of the people of Pisa.
Like innocent children they walk to their doom.
Vanna is honored by the people whom she has
saved, but scorned by her husband who, like the
true male, does not credit her story.
Vanna, Hear me, I say ! I have never lied but
to-day, above all days, I tell the deepest truth, the truth
that can be told but once and brings life or death. . . .
Hearken, Guido, then and look upon me, if you have
never known me until this hour, the first and only hour
when you have it in your power to love me as I would
be loved. I speak in the name of our life, of all that I
am, of all that you are to me. ... Be strong enough
to believe that which is incredible. This man has spared
my honor. . . . He had all power I was given over
to him. Yet he has not touched me I have issued
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