(Jean watches Angelica go into the hut and then passes slowly across the gallery and disappears in one of the Blind Alleys.)
Scene II.
(Another part of the Darker Realm. The walls are of long blocks of stone set irregularly together; gigantic fungi grow in distorted protrusions from the interstices, and water drips from their outreaching fantastic fingers. The blackness of darkness shows in portals opening on various passages. Some disused tool carts and heaps of debris are piled up at the side. A flaming torch in a cresset gives an irregular and eerie light like flashes of blue lightning. The tracks for tool carts pass along the floor of the tunnel. The sound of water flowing in some under-ground channel is heard. Jean and Angelica enter from opposite sides and meet.)
Angelica—O Jean, O Jean! What I have seen! What have I seen!
Jean—What, what? How came you here, Angelica?
Angelica—I was impatient to see you and so I came to meet you and on the way—O, I saw, I saw—what do you think?
Jean—I cannot guess. Here, come and rest yourself; sit here and do not tremble so. (He leads her to a seat on a broken bench.)
Angelica—I saw—(clasping her hands in ecstacy) a saint immortal!
Jean—Saint immortal,—what is that?
Angelica—A saint immortal? Do you not know? Why, that is one of the happy beings that live in the world above! Mother sings about it, you know: “Where saints immortal reign,” she sings. That’s in the “land of pure delight.”