Scene Fifteenth
Gertrude (alone, leaning against the closet in which the cup is locked up) Where can he have hidden that cup?
Curtain to the Third Act.
Act IV
Scene First
(Pauline’s chamber.)
Gertrude and Pauline (the latter sleeping on a large armchair on the left).
Gertrude (cautiously entering) She is sleeping, and the doctor said that she would wake up at once. Her slumber alarms me. This then is the girl that he is in love with. I do not find her pretty at all. Oh, yes, after all, she is beautiful! But how is it that men do not see that beauty is nothing but a promise, and that love is the—(someone knocks). How is this; there are people coming.
Vernon (outside)
May I come in, Pauline?
Gertrude
It is the doctor.