Silence! (Crash.) Silence! (Crash.)
Don’t even breathe a word. (All groan.)
Silence! Silence! Silence! Silence!
(Aside to Chemists.)
Give us a little less thunder, and don’t
Rattle that box of paving stones quite so hard.
(Rumbling and fire.)
All.—
Oh! how my heart thrills,
With shivers and chills,