FIELITZ
[_As before._] You always reaches out after ... somethin' ...
[_Her arms drop and she falls silent._
LEONTINE
[_To DR. BOXER._] Is she sleepin'?
DR. BOXER
[_Seriously._] Yes, she has fallen asleep. But keep all those people back
now.
RAUCHHAUPT
The whole crowd is comin' over here.
DR. BOXER
[_Emphatically._] Keep them back! Ede! Turn them back at once!
_EDE runs out._
LEONTINE
Doctor, what's happened to mother?
DR. BOXER
Your mother has ...
LEONTINE
What, what?
DR. BOXER
[_Significantly._] Has fallen asleep.
LEONTINE'S
[_Face assumes an expression of horror; she is about to shriek. DR. BOXER
takes hold of her vigorously and puts his hand over her mouth. She
regains a measure of self-control._] But, Doctor, she was talkin' just
now...?
DR. BOXER
[_Gently draws LEONTINE forward with his left hand and places his right
upon the forehead of the dead woman._] So she was. And from now on she
takes her fill of silence.
_In the background FIELITZ, careless of what has happened, regards
his eyes sharply and intently in a hand mirror._
THE CURTAIN FALLS
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