A lapse of five hours is supposed. The scene is the same. The time is near dawn. Soldiers are on guard. Challenges pass. Rumors have been heard of ill to the beloved _Princess Adrea_. _Kaeso’s_ lieutenant, _Arkissus_, devoted to _Adrea_, has heard these rumors, and he demands an explanation of them from the now drunken and frenzied _Kaeso_. They quarrel, and are about to fight, when a fearful cry is heard and they halt. Then, staggering down the palace steps, moaning in agony, comes the _Princess Adrea_, alone. Her prayer, like that of Ajax, is for light. She beseeches the gods to grant her one moment of sight, so that she may see the man to whom she has been given. The _Fool_ enters, to drag her away,--for the _Princess Julia_, now _Queen_, has decreed banishment of _Adrea_ and the _Fool_, and they must leave her kingdom before the dawn. There is an ominous roll of thunder. The _Fool_ seizes _Adrea_. Suddenly the heavens seem to answer her agonized supplication. A bolt of lightning shatters the statue of her father, to which she has been clinging, and there is an instant of darkness. When the light is restored, a chaos stands revealed, in which _Princess_ and _Fool_ are prostrated. _Adrea_ revives, and, with a wild cry, realizes that she can see. Soon she remembers, and gazing down upon a “painted, hideous, gibbering thing, in red and white,” she knows him for the _Fool_, who has been described to her. She lifts his limp body and stares at his vacant eyes: then she drops it and whispers, in horror: “Gods! _You!_” The action now shifts to a structure called “The Tower of Forgetfulness.” To this _Adrea_ goes, not thinking to take her throne, but only wishing to die, and thus bury her shame. The Tower of Forgetfulness is an obelisk of great antiquity, built half on the land and half on the sea. Its door is never closed. Here the wretch who is weary of life can drink “the cup of oblivion,” and, through “the door of release,” sink into the sea, and be at rest. It is _Adrea’s_ purpose to die. Then suddenly she hears the royal trumpets, the marriage song, and _Kaeso’s_ song of battle. At the same moment her father’s ghost appears and enjoins her to reign, for vengeance. Looking down upon the ocean, she beholds _Kaeso_ and _Julia_, who are returning to the palace, after their marriage. They are in her father’s royal galley, with his effigy at the prow. “Stop them!” commands _Adrea_. “Bring my father’s galley here! Say that _Queen Adrea_, rides to her coronation!” _Arkissus_ appears with his legions, and executes her will.