Her Grace cannot become the Duchess of Vaucluse.
Queen
Ah, why not?
Phedro
He is beyond us.
Queen
Do you mean that he has sought for himself, the only satisfactory rest!—a sleep without dreams. He is dead!—How?
Phedro
The philosopher and the blind girl escaped with him at dawn; long before sunrise an old, disused hulk was seen going down the river, and in the blaze of this morning has returned with only the philosopher and his hired oarsmen. Apparently the blind girl died from the tremors of escape, and the clown in his grief found nothing left in himself to face life with, so he threw his distressed person into the sea.
Queen