PASTOR.

God grant that the worst may still be prevented!

STEIN (stamps his foot).

Bastian! Bastian! Why are you still standing there! Make haste!

[Exit MÖLLER.]

And I—while—Bastian!

[BASTIAN brings the rifle. STEIN tears it from him.]

I am coming!
Robert, hold your own! I am coming!

[Exeunt omnes.]

ACT IV