She
talks to herself (and us). She jumps at the sound of owls and she talks about how well she's
prepared the scene: she's drugged the guards and laid out the daggers nice and neatly for , and
there's a suggestion in this speech that she expectsto bungle it. Of the daggers, she says
"he could not miss them," and of the act, she says she fears "the attempt and not
the deed confound [them]," meaning she thinks they may be caught in the act.
The noise that startles her--the owl (fatal bellman) is ironic because the cry of the
owl is supposed to signify an...
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