 "Not by me" a voice cries out—and it is Orombello who excitedly tells her his plans to rally the troops and help her free herself.She crushes him saying that she does not highly regard his expertise in security matters.Orombello tells of how his compassion was mistaken for love, but that he gradually came to love her and, as he kneels to protest his love and refusal to leave her, Filippo and Agnese enter, proclaiming the two traitors of having an affair.