THIRD MAIDSERVANT (within).

There are going to be great fêtes! Open quickly!…

THE MAIDSERVANTS.

Open! open!

PORTER.

Wait! wait! I do not know whether I shall be able to open it;… it is never opened…. Wait till it is light….

FIRST MAIDSERVANT.

It is light enough without; I see the sunlight through the chinks….

PORTER.

Here are the great keys…. Oh! oh! how the bolts and the locks grate!… Help me! help me!…