Sleep big mousie...


Hygd (suddenly irritable):

Be quiet ... I cannot bear it.


[She turns her head away from GONERIL and closes her eyes.]

[As GONERIL watches her in silence GORMFLAITH enters by the door beyond
the bed. She is young and tall and fresh-coloured; her red hair coils
and crisps close to her little head, showing its shape. Her movements
are soft and unhurried; her manner is quiet and ingratiating and a
little too agreeable; she speaks a little too gently.]


Goneril (meeting her near the door and speaking in a low voice):

Why did you leave the Queen? Where have you been?
Why have you so neglected this grave duty?


Gormflaith:

This is the instant of my duty, Princess:
From midnight until now was Merryn's watch.
I thought to find her here: is she not here?