When we dead awaken.

Professor Rubek.

[Shakes his head mournfully.] What do we really see then?

Irene.

We see that we have never lived.

[She goes towards the slope and descends.

[The Sister of Mercy makes way for her and follows her. Professor Rubek remains sitting motionless beside the brook.

Maia.

[Is heard singing triumphantly among the hills.]

I am free! I am free! I am free!