RAVENSBANE You lie. She is above your power.
DICKON Still, thou darest not—
RAVENSBANE Fool, I dare. [Turning to Rachel.] Mistress, this pipe is I. This intermittent smoke holds, in its nebula, Venus, Mars, the world. If I should break it—Chaos and the dark! And this of me that now stands up will sink jumbled upon the floor—a scarecrow. See! I break it.
[He breaks the pipe in his hands, and flings the pieces at Dickon’s feet in defiance; then turns, agonized, to Rachel.] Oh, Rachel, could I have been a man—!
DICKON [Picking up the pieces of pipe, turns to Rachel.] Mademoiselle, I felicitate you; you have outwitted the devil. [Kissing his fingers to her, he disappears.]
MISTRESS MERTON [Seizing the Justice’s arm in fright.] Satan!
JUSTICE MERTON [Whispers.] Gone!
RACHEL Richard! Richard! support him.
RICHARD [Sustaining Ravensbane, who sways.] He is fainting. A chair!
RACHEL [Placing a chair, helps Richard to support Ravensbane toward it.] How pale; but yet no change.