MAGDA.

[Springing up and spreading out her arms in agony.] Oh, if I had only never come! [Heffterdingt makes a motion to beg her silence. She misunderstands.] Are you going to drive me away? His life was the cost of my coming. May I not stay now?

HEFFTERDINGT.

[Simply and peacefully. ] No one will hinder you from praying upon his grave.

[Curtain falls slowly.]

THE END.

FOOTNOTE:

[Footnote 1]: Without which officers in the German army may not marry.