The man in whom I always have believed …

(Pause, then meditating painfully.)

When I again recall before my soul

How he behaved towards the Mystic League …

How of himself and Ahriman he spake——

(Theodora is lost in contemplation, and stares blankly into space, as if her spirit were absent.)

Strader:

O Theodora … what dost thou … see now.…

Curtain