Scene—In the fields on the outskirts of the city. At back a railroad embankment crosses the stage obliquely. At Center of the embankment stands a red and white signal flag, and near it a little red signal lamp which is not yet lighted. Here also a wooden stairway leads up to the embankment.
At the foot of the embankment to the right is a pile of used railroad ties. In the background a telegraph pole, beyond it a view of trees, fences and fields; still further back a factory building and a cluster of little dwellings.
It is six o'clock of the same afternoon. Dusk has begun to fall.
Liliom and Ficsur are discovered on the stairway looking after the train which has just passed.
Liliom
Can you still hear it snort?
Ficsur
Listen! [They watch the vanishing train.]
