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!