A pause.
Pakh. Begone!
Exorcist. His upper lip is Isis. His lower lip is Neptes, his neck is the goddess, his teeth are swords, his flesh is Osiris, his hands are divine souls, his fingers are blue serpents, snakes, sons of the goddess Sekhet—
Pakh. Begone! I no longer believe in your power!
Exorcist [taking a doll from the coffer] Horus is there! Ra is there! Let them cry to the chiefs of Heliopolis—
Pakh. Have done!
He knocks down the doll which the Exorcist holds over him. The music stops suddenly.
Exorcist. The evil spirits are strongest in him. He will die. Only his son has the right to be with him at death.
All go out save Pakh and Satni.
Satni. My father—