ALICE. [Folding the letter] We'll see whether I have guessed it.
CURT. Will you help me then?
ALICE. Yes—but no further than my own interests permit. My own—that is my children's.
CURT. I understand that! Do you hear how silent everything is—here on land, out on the sea, everywhere?
ALICE. But behind the silence I hear voices—mutterings, cries!
CURT. Hush! I hear something, too—no, it was only the gulls.
ALICE. But I hear something else! And now I am going to the post-office—with this letter!
Curtain.
Same stage setting. ALLAN is sitting at the writing-table studying. JUDITH is standing in the doorway. She wears a tennis hat and carries the handle-bars of a bicycle in one hand.