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Lear (continuing meanwhile):
Doff it ... (GORMFLAITH kisses him.)
Enough ... (Kiss) Unless you do ...
(Kiss) my will ... (Kiss)
I shall----(Kiss) I shall----(Kiss) I'll have you
... (Kiss) sent ... (Kiss) to ...(Kiss.)
Gormflaith:
Hush.
Lear:
Come to the garden: you shall hear me there.
Gormflaith:
I dare not leave the Queen ... Yes, yes, I come.
Lear:
No, you are better here: the guard would see you.
Gormflaith:
Not when we reach the pathway near the apple-yard.
[They rise.]
Lear:
Girl, you are changed: you yield more beauty so.
[They go out hand in hand by the doorway at the back. As they pass the
crumpled letter GORMFLAITH drops her handkerchief on it, then picks up
handkerchief and letter together and thrusts them into her bosom as she
passes out.]
Hygd (fingering back the bed-curtain again):
How have they vanished? What are they doing now?
Gormflaith (singing outside):
If you have a mind to kiss me
You shall kiss me in the dark:
Yet rehearse, or you might miss me--
Make my mouth your noontide mark.
See, I prim and pout it so;
Now take aim and .
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