 He overhears the dinner in the next room, and a song.As the diners move into the chamber, Hernando hides behind an arras to observe.Left “alone,” the Cardinal sets about wooing the Duchess and kissing her, deploying “some art to poison all her innocence.” After the kissing, the Cardinal marvels over the transformation of his anger into lust, and fears that he’ll “forgive Columbo’s death, / If she content to my embrace.” She protests, and he begins to rape her.