OLD LADY. Secrets? What do you mean by that?
A clock begins to strike and keeps it up as if it never meant to stop.
JUDGE. Now I am getting scared.
OLD LADY. Then Old Nick himself may take me if I stay here another minute! [The spot of sunlight appears suddenly on the portrait of the OLD LADY] Look! He knows that secret, too!
JUDGE. You mean that there is a portrait of her behind yours?
OLD LADY. Come away from here and let us go down and eat. And let us see whether we can't sell off the house and all the rest at auction——
JUDGE. You are right—sell off the whole caboodle and start a new life!—And now let us go down and eat.
THE OTHER ONE appears in the doorway.
The JUDGE and the OLD LADY draw back from him.
JUDGE. That's an ordinary human being!
OLD LADY. Speak to him!