The work will be finished, my Lord.
ARROW-BEARER
Will be finished! What, when I see the ground still strewn with petals and dead flower——and here, of all places, around the Pavilion of the Ladies-in-Waiting. [Aside] where blooms that living flower whom I adore.
HUMPBACK
No sooner have we put all straight than the spiteful wind shakes the branches and we have to begin all over again.
ARROW-BEARER
Remove them from the moss, at all events——Those faded flowers look like so many stains.
SCENE III
ROCK, FIR-SAPLING, STRONG-ARM, HUMPBACK, ARROW-BEARER, GOLDEN LOTUS, CINNAMON, PEARL, TRANQUIL BEAUTY—LADIES IN WAITING.