EMPRESS
[Quickly and breathlessly] If it is not already obstructed by the soil, yes! And all about the Hill of Tortures the Tartars are encamped.
FAITHFUL PRINCE
We will wait until they are no longer there.
EMPRESS
And shall we have sufficient air in this vault, where sleep our dead?
FAITHFUL PRINCE
Yes, I believe so——but let us take this potion with us which you wished to drink a while ago.
EMPRESS [Very excitedly]
And if the Tartars take us there, if they track us like beasts of the night, hunted into their burrows? Remember how they violated the tomb of my ancestor.