She falls upon the steps exhausted. Padilla drags Enrique out of the door at right.
Ximénès. We shall burn her after vespers!
(Curtain)
ACT FIVE
Scene—Before the Door of the Lions of the Cathedral of Toledo. At the right, the portal in front of which are a number of steps. In the foreground, an alley. There are two other alleys: one very narrow, but passable, leads obliquely past the church; the other, at the left, faces the scene, is wider and sloping. At the left, in the foreground, is a house beyond which is a street and a pyre for burning victims. It is near the close of day and the heavens are red with the glow of the setting sun. Two archers guard the pyre. Two others stand at the entrances of the alleys at the foot of the stage.
Scene One
Doña Rufina, Doña Syrena, Ramiro, Rioubos, Velasco, Ambrosio, Cristobol, Torillo, later Cleofas, people, monks, soldiers, women and children.
There are few persons in the scene, with the exception of some men conversing near the doors. A group of gentlemen, among them Cristobol, Velasco and Rioubos, enter from the alley at the foot of the scene and stop to look at the pyre. Doña Serafina, Doña Rufina and Doña Syrena, preceded by Ramiro, enter from the other alley at the same time that Don Ambrosio and Doña Fabia come out of the house at the left. Men, women and children are coming out of the Cathedral.
Ramiro. Here is the pyre!
Doña Rufina. They intend to burn her tonight, do they not?