ASTOLAINE.
Go to the door … listen…. Perhaps it was the nurse rising….
FIFTH SISTER (listening at the door).
No, no; I hear the nurse walking…. There is another noise.
SIXTH SISTER (also running).
I think Palomides has moved too; I hear the murmur of a voice seeking….
THE VOICE OF ALLADINE.
[Very feebly, within the room.] Palomides!…
ONE OF THE SISTERS.
She is calling him!…