ALICE. Don't ask! It is over now!
CAPTAIN. AS you please, child.
ALICE. You would not have spoken like that three days ago—what has done it?
CAPTAIN. Well, dear, when I fell down that first time, I went a little way on the other side of the grave. What I saw has been forgotten, but the impression of it still remains.
ALICE. And it was?
CAPTAIN. A hope—for something better!
ALICE. Something better?
CAPTAIN. Yes. That this could be the real life, I have, in fact, never believed: it is death—or something still worse!
ALICE. And we——
CAPTAIN. Have probably been set to torment each other—so it seems at least!