Crouch down, old heron, out of the blind storm.

OONA.

Where is the Countess Cathleen? All this day

She has been pale and weakly: when her hand

Touched mine over the spindle her hand trembled,

And now I do not know where she has gone.

ALEEL.

Cathleen has chosen other friends than us,

And they are rising through the hollow world.

[He points downwards.