OOZIZI: You must not go, lady, you must not go. QUEEN: I will not go. [_The Princes drum again, still louder with their heels._ Hark! [OOZIZI _is frightened, The_ QUEEN _runs to the door._ It is louder! They are nearer! They are coming here! OOZIZI: No, lady. They would not dare! QUEEN: I must go, Oozizi; I must go. OOZIZI: No, lady. They will never dare. You must not. Hark! They come no nearer. June has maddened them, but they come no nearer. They are quiet now. Come back, lady. Leave the door, they come no nearer. See, it is all quiet now. They come no nearer, lady. (OOZIZI _catches her by the sleeve._) Lady, you must not. QUEEN (_much calmer, gazing away_): Oozizi, I must go. OOZIZI: No, no, lady! All is quiet; you must not go. QUEEN (_calmly_): It is calling for me, Oozizi. OOZIZI: What is calling, lady? Nothing calls. QUEEN: It is calling, Oozizi. OOZIZI: Oh, lady, all is silent. No one calls. QUEEN: It is calling for me now, Oozizi. OOZIZI: No, no, lady. What calls? QUEEN: Aether Mountain is calling. I know now who called my mother. It was Aether Mountain, Oozizi; he is calling. OOZIZI: I--I scarce dare look out of the golden palace, lady, to where we must not go. Yet, yet I will look. (_She peers._) Yes, yes, indeed; there stands old Aether Mountain. But he does not call. Indeed he does not call. He is all silent in Heaven. QUEEN: It is his voice, Oozizi. OOZIZI: What, lady? I hear no voice. QUEEN: That great, great silence is his voice, Oozizi. He is calling me out of that blue waste of Heaven. OOZIZI: Lady, I cannot understand. QUEEN: He calls, Oozizi. OOZIZI: Come away, lady. It is bad to look so long. Oh, if the Princes had not made their clamour heard! Oh, if they had not you had not gone to the door and seen Aether Mountain, and this trouble had not come. Oh! Oh! Oh! QUEEN: There is no trouble upon Aether Mountain. OOZIZI: Oh, lady, it is terrible that you should leave the palace. QUEEN: There is no trouble there. Aether Mountain goes all calm into Heaven. His grey-blue slopes are calm as the sky about him. There he stands calling. He is calling to me, Oozizi. OOZIZI (_reflecting_): Can it be? QUEEN: What would you ask, Oozizi? Oozizi: Can it be that it is with you, great lady, as it was with the Queen, your mother, when Destiny sent her hence to Aether Mountain? QUEEN: Aether Mountain calls. OOZIZI: Lady, for a moment hear me. Come with me but a little while. [_She leads the_ QUEEN _slowly by the arm back to the throne._ Lady, be seated here once more and take up the orb and sceptre in your small hands as of old. [_The_ QUEEN _patiently does as she is told._ Now, if Destiny calls you, let him call to you as to a Queen. Now, if it be for no whim of those that pass, that you would go so far from here to that great mountain, say, seated upon your throne in the golden palace with sceptre and orb in hand, say would you go forth, lady? QUEEN (_almost dreaming_): Aether Mountain calls.