ALICIA. Hush, you coarse slave; we'll surprise Your good wife in her mystic exercise. Quick, through the bramble![They burst through upon ADELA.]
CRASSUS. Now, you beast, I've got you! The curst of God, and plague of Naples, rot you! For this white brute - one slit![He cuts the throat of THE SWAN with his dagger.]
ADELA. Oh love betrayed! O my dead beauty! Faugh! deceitful maid. Not Crassus found me out. Had I the wings Of my dead love - oh love! -
ALICIA. Why, wondrous things!
ADELA. These nails shall serve. A servant!
CRASSUS. She shall be My wife, damned witch, when I have done with thee![THE SWAN dies.]
ADELA. I'll kill her now. But see! my swan is dead.
ALICIA. Yes! and what light is breaking overhead? What blaze of blue and gold envelops us?
CRASSUS. O marvel! O miraculous!
ADELA. What is it? Why, my lover's life, in me Once concentrated, now diffused, illumes The endless reaches of eternity With infinite brilliance, with intense perfumes.