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[The same room later that evening, entirely empty, disordered. / Musicians' benches overturned, for example, a couple of instruments / left about, garlands trampled on the floor, a wing of one of the / Cupids clinging to the dais of Bianca and Mario. Enter Beatrice, / weeping, goes to her father's throne and creeps up into it, with her / face towards the back of it and clings there, sobbing quietly. Enter / Bianca and Mario,]
BIA. [Softly.] Ay. She is here. I thought she would be here. / There are so many people by his bed / Even now, she cannot be alone with him.