"Indeed it is not—your schedule is wrong, Monostatos," Sarastro assured him.
"I must look after the mother, then, since the daughter has escaped me," Monostatos remarked, comforting himself as well as he could.
"Oh don't chastise my mother," Pamina cried.
"A little chastising won't hurt her in the least," Sarastro assured her. "I know all about how she prowls around here, and if only Tamino resists his temptations, you will be united and your mother sent back to her own domain where she belongs. If he survives the ordeals we have set before him, he will deserve to marry an orphan." All this was doubtless true, but it annoyed Pamina exceedingly. As soon as Sarastro had sung of the advantages of living in so delightful a place as the temple, he disappeared, not in the usual way, but by walking off, and the scene changed.
Scene III
Tamino and the speaker who accompanied the priests and talked for them were in a large hall, and Papageno was there also.
"You are again to be left here alone; and I caution ye to be silent," the speaker advised as he went out.
The second priest said:
"Papageno, whoever breaks the silence here, brings down thunder and lightning upon himself." He, too, went out.
"That's pleasant," Papageno remarked.