· Prospero reassures Miranda that no one was hurt in the shipwreck
· Prospero has started telling Miranda about her past before but never finished the story
PROSPERO ‘there is no soul--
No, not so much perdition as an hair
Betid to any creature in the vessel’ (lines 29-31)
Begun to tell me what I am, but stopp'd
And left me to a bootless inquisition’ (lines 33-35)