friendship than for love. If I complain of any dire misfortune, it is
because Heaven in its anger has borrowed from me those shafts which it
hurls against you, and has made my looks guilty of kindling a passion
which treats your kind heart unworthily.

INEZ. This is an accident caused, doubtless, by your looks, for which
you ought not to quarrel with Heaven. If the feeble charms which my
countenance displays have exposed me to the misfortune of my lover
abandoning me, Heaven could not better soften such a blow than by making
use of you to captivate that heart. I ought not to blush for an
inconstancy which indicates the difference between your attractions and
mine. If this change makes me sigh, it is from foreseeing that it will
be fatal to your love; amidst the sorrow caused by friendship, I am
angry for your sake that my few attractions have failed to retain a
heart whose devotion interferes so greatly with the love you feel for
another.

ELV. Rather blame your silence, which, without reason, concealed the
understanding between your hearts. If I had known this secret sooner, it
might perhaps have spared us both some sad trouble; I might then coldly
and justly have refused to listen to the sighs of a fickle lover, and
perhaps have sent back whence they strayed...

INEZ. Madam, he is here.

ELV. You can remain without even looking at him. Do not go away, Madam,
but stay, and, though you suffer, hear what I say to him.

INEZ. I consent, Madam; though I very well know that were another in my
place, she would avoid being present at such a conversation.