How strange that all these people should be swung

As on a lady’s shoe-string—under them

The glowing leagues of never-ending flame!

CATHLEEN.

There is a something in you that I fear:

A something not of us. Were you not born

In some most distant corner of the world?

[The SECOND MERCHANT, who has been listening at the door to the right, comes forward, and as he comes a sound of voices and feet is heard through the door to his left.

SECOND MERCHANT [aside to FIRST MERCHANT].