The star has shot. The dead come not again.

[He rises and again walks to and fro.

Happy the dead.—Ah, what of one who lives?

What of that mask in this fantastic dance

Who crowned herself with poison flowers and laughed

To see the lilies fade before her breath?—

O death! O love! O blasting treachery!

O face that in the prison of La Force

Visited my dreams—

[The door opens. Yvette leans against it, panting,