THE VOICE OF ALLADINE.
I have lost desire to live….
[A silence; then more and more faintly:]
THE VOICE OF PALOMIDES.
Alladine!…
THE VOICE OF ALLADINE.
Palomides!…
THE VOICE OF PALOMIDES.
Alla … dine!…
[A silence.—Astolaine and the sisters of Palomides listen, in anguish. Then the nurse opens, from the inside, the door of Palomides' room, appears on the sill, makes a sign, and all enter the room. The door doses behind them. A new silence. A little afterwards, the door of Alladine's room opens in its turn; the other nurse comes out in like manner, looks about in the corridor, and, seeing no one, re-enters the room, leaving the door wide open.]