Chloris.

Not sad, precisely; but anxious, feverish, a little excited.

Persephone.

Hark! the song begins again.

[They listen, and from far away the words come faintly back:

For the dead walk here in the grass at night.]

Maia.

The dead! Shall we see them?

Chloris.

Why not? These barbarians appear to avoid them with an invincible terror, but why should we do so?