DOMIN. Where did you get it? (_Coming to C._) HELENA. (_Points to the manifesto of the ROBOTS which she has in her hand_) The Robots in the kitchen! DOMIN. Where are the ones that brought it? HELENA. There, gathered around the house. (_GALL, HALLEMEIER, DOMIN start down C._) (_The factory WHISTLE blows. MOB VOICES start._) DOMIN. The factory whistle! (_FABRY, GALL, HALLEMEIER looking over C.; then turn R._) BUSMAN. Noon? DOMIN. (_Looking at his watch. To HALLEMEIER_) No! That’s not noon yet. That must be--that’s-- (_Front._) HELENA. What? DOMIN. The Robots’ signal--the attack! (_HELENA clings to DOMIN. FABRY and GALL close the steel shutters on window C. BUSMAN hurries to window and looks through the shutters. The Curtain falls quickly with HELENA in DOMIN’S arms. The WHISTLE blows until the Curtain is down._) CURTAIN ACT THREE SCENE: _HELENA’S drawing-room as before. The room is dark and gray. The steel shutters which are outside are still closed as at the end of Act II. ALQUIST is sitting in chair down stage at extreme R. DOMIN comes into the room, L.2. (Subdued voices.) DR. GALL is looking out of the window at Center. He is seated in a chair._ DOMIN. (_Gets binoculars from desk; crosses up to window. To GALL_) Any more of them? DR. GALL. Yes. There standing like a wall, beyond the garden railing. Why are they so quiet? It’s monstrous to be besieged with silence. DOMIN. (_Looking through the barred windows_) I should like to know what they are waiting for? They must make a start any minute now. If they lean against the railings it will snap like a match. DR. GALL. They aren’t armed. DOMIN. (_Puzzled_) We couldn’t hold our own for five minutes. Man alive, they overwhelm us like an avalanche. Why don’t they make a rush for it? I say. (_Turns to GALL._) DR. GALL. Well? DOMIN. I’d like to know what will become of us in the next ten minutes. They’ve got us in a vise. We’re done for, Gall. DR. GALL. You know, we made one serious mistake. DOMIN. What? DR. GALL. We made the Robots’ faces too much alike. A hundred thousand faces all alike, all facing this way. A hundred thousand expressionless bubbles. It’s like a nightmare. DOMIN. You think if they’d been different-- DR. GALL. It wouldn’t have been such an awful sight! DOMIN. (_Looks through binoculars towards the harbor_) I’d like to know what they’re unloading from the _Amelia_. DR. GALL. Not firearms. FABRY. (_Enters L.2 with a plug-box to which is attached a long cable or wire. HALLEMEIER following him. FABRY attaches the cable to an electric installation which is on the floor near the wall, down stage at L.1 entrance_) All right, Hallemeier, lay down that wire. HALLEMEIER. (_Just inside the room_) That was a bit of work. What’s the news? (_Seeing DOMIN and GALL at the window._) DR. GALL. We’re completely surrounded.