You did? (They rush out.)
PERSON RESPONSIBLE (still modestly)
Well, so they say—
But I have to go away.
I'm due at a lecture
I give at three today.
(The Person goes out in single file, looking at its watch. As it does so, there enters a pale and dishevelled girl in Greek robes. It is the Muse.)
MUSE
In Mount Olympus we have heard a noise and crying
As swine that in deep agony are dying,