COUNTESS.

No! not yet.

"Twere better you yourself disclosed it to her.

DUCHESS.

How? Do we not return to Karn then?

WALLENSTEIN.

DUCHESS.

And to no other of your lands or seats?

WALLENSTEIN.

You would not be secure there.

DUCHESS.

No.

What? And you send us into Lutheran countries?

WALLENSTEIN.

Duke Franz of Lauenburg conducts you thither.

DUCHESS.

Duke Franz of Lauenburg?

The ally of Sweden, the Emperor's enemy.
WALLENSTEIN.

The Emperor's enemies are mine no longer. DUCHESS (casting a look of terror on the Duke and the Countess).

Is it then true? It is. You are degraded ? Deposed from the command? O God in heaven! COUNTESS (aside to the Duke).

Leave her in this belief. Thou seest she cannot Support the real truth.

SCENE V.

To them enter COUNT TERTSKY.

COUNTESS.

-Tertsky!

What ails him? What an image of affright!

He looks as he had seen a ghost.

TERTSKY (leading Wallenstein aside).

Is it thy command that all the Croats

The Jägers likewise-all the villages

In the whole round are empty.

WALLENSTEIN.

Isolani ?

TERTSKY.

Him thou hast sent away. Yes, surely.

No! Hast thou not sent him off? Nor Deodate ?

They are vanished both of them.

SCENE VI.

To them enter ILLO.

Has Tertsky told thee?

ILLO.

TERSTKY.

He knows all.

ILLO.

And likewise

That Esterhatzy, Goetz, Maradas, Kaunitz,

Kolatto, Palfi, have forsaken thee,

TERTSKY.

Damnation!

Hush!

WALLENSTEIN (winks at them).

COUNTESS.

(who has been watching them anxiously from the distance and now advances to them.) Tertsky! Heaven! What is it? What has happened? WALLENSTEIN (scarcely suppressing his emotions). Nothing! let us be gone!

TERTSKY (following him).

Theresa, it is nothing.

COUNTESS (holding him back).

Nothing? Do I not see, that all the life blood
Has left your cheeks-look you not like a ghost?
That even my brother but affects a calmness?
PAGE (enters).

An Aid-du-Camp enquires for the Count Tertsky.
[Tertsky follows the Page.

WALLENSTEIN.

Go, hear his business.

(to Illo.)

This could not have happened

So unsuspected without mutiny.

Who was on guard at the gates?

ILLO.

'Twas Tiefenbach.

WALLENSTEIN.

Let Tiefenbach leave guard without delay,
And Tertsky's grenadiers relieve him.

(Illo is going.)

Stop!

Hast thou heard aught of Butler ?

ILLO.

Him I met.

He will be here himself immediately.

Butler remains unshaken.

[Illo exit. Wallenstein is following him

COUNTESS.

Let him not leave thee, sister! go, detain him!

There's some misfortune.

DUCHESS (clinging to him).

Gracious heaven! What is it?

WALLENSTEIN.

Be tranquil! leave me, sister! dearest wife!
We are in camp, and this is nought unusual;
Here storm and sunshine follow one another
With rapid interchanges. These fierce spirits