ONE OF THE SISTERS OF PALOMIDES.

He sleeps profoundly….

ASTOLAINE.

He sleeps profoundly, but you can see his soul has no rest…. The sunlight here will vex his eyelids…. I am going to draw his cloak over his face….

ANOTHER SISTER.

No, no; do not touch it…. He might wake with a start….

ASTOLAINE.

Some one is coming in the corridor. Come, come! put yourselves before him…. Hide him…. A stranger must not see him in this state….

A SISTER OF PALOMIDES.

It is Palomides….