What would you advise ?" "Leave your Fillide behind." "Leave her to her own ignorance; leave her unprotected even by the mind; leave her in the Saturnalia of Rape and Murder?
No! I have sinned against her once.

But come what may, I will not so basely desert one who, with all her errors, trusted her fate to my love." "You deserted her at Marseilles." "True; but I left her in safety, and I did not then believe her love to be so deep and faithful.

I left her gold, and I imagined she would be easily consoled; but since THEN WE HAVE KNOWN DANGER TOGETHER! And now to leave her alone to that danger which she would never have incurred but for devotion to me!--no, that is impossible.

A project occurs to me.

Canst thou not say that thou hast a sister, a relative, or a benefactress, whom thou wouldst save?
Can we not--till we have left France--make Fillide believe that Viola is one in whom THOU only art interested; and whom, for thy sake only, I permit to share in our escape ?" "Ha, well thought of!--certainly!" "I will then appear to yield to Fillide's wishes, and resign the project, which she so resents, of saving the innocent object of her frantic jealousy.