PALOMIDES (with voice suddenly changed).
Yes; it is there…. It is at the bottom of the bluest vaults….
ALLADINE.
They are coming to….
PALOMIDES.
I hear the sound of iron on the rock…. They have walled up the door or cannot open it…. It is the picks grating against the stone…. His soul has told him we were happy….
[A silence; then a stone is detached at the very end of the vault, and a ray of daylight breaks into the cavern.]
ALLADINE.
Oh!…