Part 88 (2/2)

[_Another bell_

SAVERNY

The hour is striking

[_A third bell_

DIDIER

Yes, the hour!

[_A fourth bell_

SAVERNY

In chapel!

[_Four more bells_

DIDIER

It is a voice that calls us, just the same

SAVERNY

Another hour!

[_He leans his elbows on the stone table and drops his head on his hands The Guard is changed_

DIDIER

My friend, do not give way!

Don't falter on this threshold weup for us is low, And won't pero to meet them with a fearless tread

The scaffold can afford to shake, not we

They claim our heads; and since no fault is ours, We'll bear them proudly to the fatal block

[_Approaches Saverny, who is e!

[_Touches his arm and finds he is asleep_

Asleep! While I've been preaching courage This man has slept! What is my bravery Compared to his? Sleep on, you who can sleep

My turn will co of the heart survives within The toht While Didier has becohts, Marion and The Jailer enter through the opening in the wall; The Jailer precedes her He carries a dark-lantern and a bundle, both of which he places on the ground, then advances cautiously toward Marion, who has re on the threshold, pale, motionless, half-wild_

SCENE VI

[The scenes are mis-numbered in the book and skip from the number IV to the number VI in Act V (note of etext transcriber)]