FAUST
On! But your bondage waits you at the end.
SATAN
Ah, jester, jester!... Come—give me your hand!
CURTAIN
THE THIRD ACT
The scene is the nave of a great cathedral. Two rows of many-shafted columns stretch back to where, in the far background, rises the elaborate magnificence of the High Altar.
The nave is empty, except for an occasional figure moving at the far end of the long central aisle, and an occasional attendant in sacerdotal robes making ready the Altar.
Faust, entering from the right, and Satan, entering from the left, meet in the foreground. Satan is dressed in the dark robes of a priest.
FAUST