[A moment's pause.]

Calpurnius: Listen!

Gleva: The sound upon the road has ceased.

Calpurnius: There are no longer men marching.

Gleva: All have gone over the hill to the sea.

Calpurnius: Yes. There's a freshness in the air, a breath of wind. The morning comes----

Gleva: I cannot conquer Rome.

[A trumpet rings out clear from the top of the hill. The morning is beginning to break. There is the strange light which comes when moonlight and the dawn meet.]

Calpurnius: The reveillé! (He turns to her.)

Gleva: And----