There is no longer a sound heard in the house….
SEVENTH SERVANT.
We ought to make the children keep still, who are playing before the ventilator.
EIGHTH SERVANT.
They will be still of themselves by and by.
NINTH SERVANT.
The time has not yet come….
Enter an old Servant.
THE OLD SERVANT.
No one can go in the room any longer. I have listened more than an hour…. You could hear the flies walk on the doors…. I heard nothing….