4. Act, 5. Scene

Phaedra alone. 

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PHAEDRA:
What did he say? What was it that I heard?
That stifled love stirs up in me again.
Cruel, savage news! Great heaven, I came to save
his son! That was my purpose, so I tore
myself from Oenone’s frightened arms and followed
my tortured conscience. Who knows what I’d have done?
Perhaps condemned myself by spilling out
the ghastly truth before my voice was silenced.
Hippolytus can feel, but not for me!
Aricia has his heart. She has his pledge.
Aricia! Oh gods! While I was kneeling, pleading
and he stood hard and cold with that glazed stare
another had already shackled his pride,
another had charmed his eyes. Perhaps his heart
is easily stirred by anyone but me.
I am the only creature he despises.
And I was going to save him! Save him?