It is very beautiful now. How still it is! I have never seen so still a sunset before.
King Karnos:
It is like a picture done by a dying painter, full of a beautiful colour. Even if all these orchids died to-night yet their beauty is an indestructible memory.
Ludibras: [Aside to Ichtharion]
The prophet is coming this way.
Ichtharion:
Your Majesty, the prophet walks about in the palace, and the executioner is close behind him. If the Queen saw him and the executioner would it not trouble her? Were it not better that he should be killed at once? Shall I whistle for the executioner?
King Karnos:
Not now. I said at sunset.
Ichtharion: