ADAM. That is very true. You must tell us your secret. You see, Eve, what a splendid thing it is not to have to live for ever. EVE [_throwing herself down discontentedly and plucking at the grass_] That is so like a man. The moment you find we need not last for ever, you talk as if we were going to end today. You must clear away some of those horrid things, or we shall be scratched and stung whenever we forget to look where we are stepping. ADAM. Oh yes, some of them, of course. But only some. I will clear them away tomorrow. THE SERPENT [_laughs_]!!! ADAM. That is a funny noise to make. I like it. EVE. I do not. Why do you make it again? THE SERPENT. Adam has invented something new. He has invented tomorrow. You will invent things every day now that the burden of immortality is lifted from you. EVE. Immortality? What is that? THE SERPENT. My new word for having to live for ever. EVE. The serpent has made a beautiful word for being. Living. ADAM. Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention. THE SERPENT. Procrastination. EVE. That is a sweet word. I wish I had a serpent's tongue. THE SERPENT. That may come too. Everything is possible. ADAM [_springing up in sudden terror_] Oh! EVE. What is the matter now? ADAM. My rest! My escape from life! THE SERPENT. Death. That is the word. ADAM. There is a terrible danger in this procrastination. EVE. What danger? ADAM. If I put off death until tomorrow, I shall never die. There is no such day as tomorrow, and never can be. THE SERPENT. I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them. ADAM. If I am to overtake death, I must appoint a real day, not a tomorrow. When shall I die? EVE. You may die when I have made another Adam. Not before. But then, as soon as you like. [_She rises, and passing behind him, strolls off carelessly to the tree and leans against it, stroking a ring of the snake_]. ADAM. There need be no hurry even then. EVE. I see you will put it off until tomorrow. ADAM. And you? Will you die the moment you have made a new Eve? EVE. Why should I? Are you eager to be rid of me? Only just now you wanted me to sit still and never move lest I should stumble and die like the fawn. Now you no longer care. ADAM. It does not matter so much now. EVE [_angrily to the snake_] This death that you have brought into the garden is an evil thing. He wants me to die. THE SERPENT [_to Adam_] Do you want her to die? ADAM. No. It is I who am to die. Eve must not die before me. I should be lonely. EVE. You could get one of the new Eves. ADAM. That is true. But they might not be quite the same. They could not: I feel sure of that. They would not have the same memories. They would be--I want a word for them. THE SERPENT. Strangers. ADAM. Yes: that is a good hard word. Strangers.