FAITHFUL PRINCE
It was not secret, like yours.
EMPRESS [Still in great excitement]
And, clothes wherewith to escape through the country where the enemy roams at large? [Pointing to her uniform.] Not these, for sure?
FAITHFUL PRINCE
Some taken from the enemy will serve admirably——The ground must be covered with them.
EMPRESS
Rags torn from some festering corpse, is it thus you would clothe your Empress!——So be it, even to that I consent——But how can we live in the depths of that tomb? Since we are not yet of the Shades, we must eat, you know that. I divided my last grains of rice this morning with you and my soldiers!——What then?
FAITHFUL PRINCE [Pointing to the tomb.]
The consecrated cakes there on the table of the dead.