Mother, help me, I die![die!]
[Church bells sound far away.
The Imps.
Bells in the mountain! The Black-Frock’s cows!
[The Trolls take to flight, amid a confused uproar of yells and shrieks. The palace collapses; everything disappears.
SCENE SEVENTH.
Pitch darkness.
Peer Gynt is heard beating and slashing about him with a large bough.
Peer.
Answer! Who are you?