Anne [to The Player].
You go with us, sir?
[He moves towards door with them.]
The Player. No, I do but play
Your inn-keeper.
Herbert [apart, despairingly].
The eagle is gone blind.
[Exeunt, leaving doors open. They are seen to go down the walk together. At the street they pause, The Player, bowing slowly, then turning back towards the inn; Anne holding Herbert's arm. Within, the door on the left opens slightly, then Mary appears.]
Mary.
'Tis true. My ears caught silence, if no more.
They're gone....
[She comes out of her hiding-place and opens the left-hand casement to see Anne disappearing with Herbert.]
She takes him with her! He'll return?
Gone, gone, without a word; and I was caged,—
And deaf as well. O, spite of everything!
She's so unlike.... How long shall I be here
To wait and wonder? He with her—with her!
[The Player, having come slowly back to the door, hears her voice. Mary darts towards the entrance to look after Herbert and Anne. She sees him and recoils. She falls back step by step, while he stands holding the door-posts with his hands, impassive.]
You!...