O Catiline--!

CATILINE. This was their final visit.
I bade them all farewell. Now every bond
Forevermore is broken that bound me fast
And fettered me to Rome.

AURELIA. I've gathered up
Our bit of property. Not much perhaps;--
Yet, Catiline, enough for our contentment.

CATILINE. [Engrossed in thought.]
More than enough for me who squandered all.

AURELIA. Oh, brood no more on things we can not change;--
Forget what--

CATILINE. Happy he who could forget,--
Who could the memory tear from out his soul,
The many hopes, the goal of all desires.
Ah, time is needed ere I reach that state;
But I shall struggle--

AURELIA. I shall help you strive;
You shall be comforted for all your loss.
Yet we must leave as soon as possible.
Here life calls to you with a tempter's voice.
Is it not so,--we go this very night?

CATILINE. Yes, yes,--we leave this very night, Aurelia!