CREUSA (starting back in horror).

Dead!

MEDEA (looking swiftly about her as in a daze).

Dead? Who speaks of death? I am alive!

[She stands there violently agitated and staring dazedly before her. A trumpet-blast sounds without.]

JASON. Ha, what is that?

(To MEDEA.)

Why standest silent there?
Thou'lt rue this moment, that I know full well!

[_Another trumpet-blast without. The KING appears suddenly at the door._]

JASON (hurrying to meet him).