[They stop singing and dancing.
First Dancer. It's the Superior.
Superior. Stop this blasphemy! Leave the chapel at once! I will deal with you by-and-by. [Dancing Friars go out.
Jerome. [Stooping over Paul.] He has not wakened from the trance yet.
Aloysius. [Who still remains perfectly motionless.] Not yet, but he will soon awake—Paul!
Superior. It is hardly worth while being angry with those poor fools whose heads he has turned with his talk. [Stoops and touches his hand.] It is quite rigid. I will wait till he is alive again, there is no use wasting words on a dead body.
Jerome. [Stooping over him.] His eyes are beginning to quiver. Let me be the first to speak to him. He may say some wild things when he awakes, not knowing who is before him.
Superior. He must not preach. I must have his submission at once.
Jerome. I will do all I can with him. He is most likely to listen to me. I was once his close friend.
Superior. Speak to him if you like, but entire submission is the only thing I will accept. [To the other Monks.] Come with me, we will leave Father Jerome here to speak to him. [Superior and Friars go to the door.] Such desecration, such blasphemy. Remember, Father Jerome, entire submission, and at once. [Superior and Friars go out.