MIMI. They need you. You must be king.
HAGEN. [Wildly.] Ha?
MIMI. Alberich...
HAGEN. Alberich?
MIMI. He is dead!
HAGEN. [With wild start.] Dead!
MIMI. Yes... he died last night!
HAGEN. [Turns pale and staggers; then leaps at Mimi, clutching him by the arm.] No! NO!
MIMI. It is true.
HAGEN. My God! [A look of wild, drunken rapture crosses his face; he clenches his hands and raises his arms.] Ha, ha, ha!