He is moved to seek one embrace of Camilla before the conflict:--she is beautiful! There was never such beauty as hers! He goes to her in the fittest preparation for the pangs of jealousy.

But he has not been foremost in practising the uses of silver keys.

Michiella, having first arranged with her father to be before Camillo's doors at a certain hour with men-at-arms, is in Camilla's private chamber, with her hand upon a pregnant box of ebony wood, when she is startled by a noise, and slips into concealment.

Leonardo bursts through the casement window.
Camilla then appears.

Leonardo stretches the tips of his fingers out to her; on his knees confesses his guilt and warns her.