When Panthea arrives, and is told "How late thou art!" she replies,
Pardon, great Sister! but my wings were faint
With the delight of a remembered dream;
and in her next speech,
As I have said,
With our Sea-Sister at his feet I slept.
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Then two dreams came. One I remember not.
But in the other;
and she goes on to relate it, ending:—
I listened through the night when sound was none,
Ione wakened then, and said to me:
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I answered not, for the eastern star grew pale,
But fled to thee.
The identity of time is marked in the three leading passages by the same closing signal, the paling or whitening of the eastern star.
We have thus, as it appears to me, the manifest contradiction that in Act I. Panthea and Ione are watching the action and bearing part in the dialogue throughout the dawning of this first day up to the moment of Panthea's departure to visit Asia; while in the opening of Act II. they are both sleeping, Panthea dreaming, throughout the same period, save the last moments, in which Panthea gathers her thoughts and listens, and Ione wakens and speaks.
Following on with this first scene of Act II., we find that almost immediately Panthea's other dream appears (and this Dream, as a Shape that speaks, ought to be in the list of dramatis personæ along with the Phantasm,
