STRANGE INTERLUDE
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here again . . . Nina in black . . . too late! . . .
[He calls hoarsely]
Nina!
[There is no answer]
In other room . . . doesn’t hear . . . just as well . . .
[He turns to the bookcase and pulls out the first volume his hands come on and opens it at random and begins to read aloud sonorously like a child whistling to keep up his courage in the dark]
“Stetit unus in arcem
Erectus capitis victorque ad sidera mittit
Sidereos oculos propiusque adspectat Olympum
Inquiritque Iovem;” . . .
CURTAIN
