Satan: Ah, Spring, Spring. They are dancing. Such nimble ankles.

[Antoninus raises his scourge.

Satan (more gravely): Think, Antoninus, forty or fifty more Springs.

Antoninus: Never, never, never.

Satan: And no more striving next time. See Antoninus, see them as they dance, there with the may behind them under the hill.

Antoninus: Never! I will not look.

Satan: Ah, look at them, Antoninus. Their sweet figures. And the warm wind blowing in Spring.

Antoninus: Never! My scourge is for such.

[Satan sighs. The girls laugh from the hill. Antoninus hears the laughter.

A look of fear comes over him.