ASTOLAINE.
Three among you remain here,… and we will go to the other door. Come, come quickly. We will surround them. We will try to defend them…. Lie back against the doors…. Perhaps they will hear no longer….
ONE OF THE SISTERS.
I shall go into Alladine's room….
SECOND SISTER.
Yes, yes; prevent her from crying out again.
THIRD SISTER.
She is already cause of all this evil….
ASTOLAINE.
Do not go in, or I go in to Palomides…. She also had a right to life; and she has done nought but to live…. But that we cannot stifle in their passage their deadly words!… We are without help, my poor sisters, my poor sisters, and hands cannot stop souls!…