PALOMIDES.

[Looking behind him as they still recoil.] Have a care….

ALLADINE.

No, no; have no more care….

PALOMIDES (looking at her).

Alladine?

ALLADINE.

Yes …

[They still recoil before the invasion of light or peril, until they lose their footing; and they fall and disappear behind the rock that overhangs the underground and now gloomy water.—A silence. Astolaine and the sisters of Palomides enter the crypt.]