Ellida.
[Taken aback.] What is this? How strangely you speak to me![1] Who is it you are looking for?
The Stranger.
You know I am looking for you.
Ellida.
[Starts.] Ah! [Gazes at him a moment, staggers backwards, and breaks out into a half-smothered shriek.] The eyes!—The eyes!
The Stranger.
Well,—are you beginning to recognise me at last? I knew you at once, Ellida.
Ellida.
The eyes. Don't look at me like that? I will call for help.
The Stranger.
Hush, hush! Don't be afraid. I will do you no harm.
Ellida.
[Holds her hands over her eyes.] Don't look at me like that, I say!
The Stranger.
[Leans his arms upon the garden fence.] I came with the English steamer.
Ellida.
[Glances shrinkingly at him.] What do you want with me?
1 He has addressed her, as he does throughout, by the familiar du—"thou." She always uses the formal De in speaking to him.
