ALICE. The Captain has had a stroke—will you please help us to roll out the chair?
LIEUTENANT. Madam——
ALICE. What is it?
LIEUTENANT. Well, Miss Judith——
ALICE. Help us with this first—then you can speak of Miss Judith afterward.
[The LIEUTENANT rolls out the chair to the right.
ALICE. Away with the carcass! Out with it, and let's open the doors! The place must be aired! [Opens the doors in the background; the sky has cleared] Ugh!
CURT. Are you going to desert him?
ALICE. A wrecked ship is deserted, and the crew save their lives—I'll not act as undertaker to a rotting beast! Drainmen and dissectors may dispose of him! A garden bed would be too good for that barrowful of filth! Now I am going to wash and bathe myself in order to get rid of all this impurity—if I can ever cleanse myself completely!
JUDITH is seen outside, by the balustrade, waving her handkerchief toward the sea.