(The POTENTATE groans.)
SAGE. Sire, you have seen some truth to-night. Is courage, is God, all on your side? Is Time on your side? Shall I go back to my master and tell him that you need no more of his inventions?
(He pauses, and glances at the POTENTATE with a look of contempt, and then turns to go. The POTENTATE looks round him with a ghastly stare.)
POTENTATE (feebly). No ... the Crucified ... Time ... Stay, stay!
(The SAGE turns with a gesture of triumph.)
(Curtain.)
Footnote 1: [(return)]
It is necessary to state that The Potentate was written before Sir James Barrie's play Der Tag appeared.