An actor can justify the pause - a moment of deeply felt guilt, that he brought the deceiver into the home and thus caused Fosca's subsequent betrayal by him.
Acceptable?
It seems like a very awkward place to put that, though. Particularly the way the musical phrase is shaped, with "home" on a higher note, which to me seems somewhat positive/happy instead of guilty. Might be more justifiable if the pause had been between between "One evening" and "I invited him home," or if the contour of the phrase were different at the end. But, we're left with it as it is. :-) |
