Earth-born creature, live for Earth!
Brand.
[Breaks into soft weeping.]
Alf and Agnes, come unto me!
Lone I sit upon this peak!
Keen the north wind pierces through me,
Phantoms seize me, chill ones, meek——!
He looks up; a glimmering space opens and clears in the mist; the Apparition of a Woman stands in it, brightly clad, with a cloak over its shoulders. It is Agnes.
The Phantom.
[Smiles, and spreads its arms towards him.]