[Lowering a bamboo blind]
If we could only see him through the blind!
ARROW-BEARER
Farewell! I must give place to a nobler visitor.
[The young girls go in, and ARROW-BEARER hurries off.]
SCENE IV
The TARTAR EMPEROR, disguised as the Viceroy of the South, with FOUNT-IN-THE-FOREST, his minister.
FOUNT
I see no one——Your Majesty may come forward.