FAITHFUL PRINCE [Pointing to VEILED-LIGHT]
Your Councillor and I will follow you into the tomb, and perhaps two of these young girls if they feel brave enough for the ordeal.
SCENE VII.
The same, the LADIES-IN-WAITING.
EMPRESS
So here are my household, my court of death, and doubtless my last retinue of mourners; just four persons! [To the LADIES-IN-WAITING] Which two of you, my maidens, will have the courage to follow me down those gloomy paths below?
LADIES-IN-WAITING [Bowing]
All of us, we are all ready. Your Majesty has but to deign to name two of us.
EMPRESS [After a pause]