Unperceived by naked eye,
Wheedling, coaxing, courting, wooing,
Death weds all to their undoing
And the myth of life is ended.

That's all, Anthony.

TONY

Keep still, keep still. You have sung your song—now keep quiet.

[Lipa enters, opens the window, removes the flowers, and looks out into the street. Then she lights the lamp.

TONY

Who is it? Is that you, Lipa? Lipa, eh, Lipa, where are they going?

LIPA

They are coming here for the feast-day. You had better go to bed,
Tony, or father will see you and scold you.

SPERANSKY