[A whistle is heard.
Tresham. Ho, Gerard!
Enter Gerard, Austin and Guendolen, with lights.
No one speak! You see what's done.
I cannot bear another voice.
Mertoun. There's light—
Light all about me, and I move to it.
Tresham, did I not tell you—did you not
Just promise to deliver words of mine
To Mildred?
Tresham. I will bear these words to her.
Mertoun. Now?
Tresham. Now. Lift you the body, and leave me
The head.
[As they half raise Mertoun, he turns suddenly.
Mertoun. I knew they turned me: turn me not from her!
[248]There! stay you! there!