I will not. I am his. No kiss of yours
Can quench his burning image. Let me go!
But ah, the spell and rapture of your arms—
Reach them where yearning lovers starve in hell,
And bless them.—Stop! My body and soul are his.
I hate you—I hate you—hate you!
[She rushes into the dark. Calaf reaches—groping—with a wild cry.]
Curtain
ACT FOURTH
The scene is the same as the second act, scene second, except that the back of the great hall of the emperor’s Divan is now hidden by a decorated curtain. The assembly is gathered as before: Capocomico, Turandot and Altoum seated on their larger and lesser thrones.