Me ... me ... me ... me ... it was me that did it! Go on an' shout, an' shout! It's that there feller that they lifts up! Let 'em. But I don't make no speeches like that! Character, conscience--them's the main things. Yes, it was me as paid an' me as built. But even if Wehrhahn went an' dropped me--I don't let go my sound opinions! There's gotta be order! There's gotta be morality! I'm for the monarchy right down to my marrow! I don't envy him that there triumph! DR. BOXER Look here, Fielitz! Come over here to the light, will you? I'd like to examine your eyes.--Don't your pupils move at all? MRS. FIELITZ [_Pants swiftly and convulsively, throws her hands high up as if in joy, and cries out half in rapture, half in terror:_] Julius! LEONTINE Mama! Mama! EDE She's gone to sleep. LEONTINE [_Appealing to the DOCTOR._] Mother is swingin' her arms around so! DR. BOXER Who? Where? Mrs. Fielitz? LEONTINE Look! Look! EDE [_Laughing._] Is she tryin' to catch sparrows in the air? _DR. BOXER has turned from FIELITZ to MRS. FIELITZ._ DR. BOXER Mrs. Fielitz! _FIELITZ unconcerned by the events in the room, walks excitedly up and down in the background. RAUCHHAUPT is tensely watching from the window what takes place without._ LEONTINE What is it? Mother won't answer at all! RAUCHHAUPT I believe they're goin' to end by comin' over here! DR. BOXER What is it, Mrs. Fielitz? What are you trying to do? Why do you move your hands about in that way? MRS. FIELITZ [_Reaching out strangely with both hands._] You reaches ... you reaches ... always this way ... DR. BOXER After what? MRS. 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