Fair (looks up with a strange, wild, longing look in her face,
then quickly covers her eyes with her hand. She is trembling so, she can
hardly stand. She raises her face to his: all the passion is none; she
is paler than the dead. Her words come slowly, hardly above a whisper).
But I--don't love you!

[Winthrop takes a step backward, his face very white and drawn.
He slowly loosens the clasp of her hand as--

THE CURTAIN FALLS.




ACT II.


The parlor of the Stuart home. A large room with high ceiling and
carved doors and mantels. The room, when in order, is beautiful in
every appointment. The furniture, old mahogany, the hangings and
ornaments are handsome and in good taste. Now, however, the furniture
is piled together, as though for moving; the pictures, down from their
places, stand against the wall; some cut through with sabers. Many of
the chairs are broken and overturned. A large sofa is against the wall;
this has been slit open and all the bedding torn out. A table left near
it, and by the sofa a large fire chair. At the back and near the right
stands the great cedar chest. It, as well as the other things, was
carried out by the soldiers in Act I. On the right, a desk with writing
materials. On the left (back) a door. At back (center) double doors,