De Vardes

Why, then, without doubt

It was Vivien! But yet do you know

‘Tis the Eve of Saint John, and here, last night,

I dreamed that I saw my dream again!

[The hand and arm of the statue fall, broken, to the

ground at the feet of The Marquise.

The Marquise

Ah!

De Vardes (pushes the marble aside with his foot)