Where There is Nothing

One of the Crowd. [Coming back with two or three others.] I knew they must be in the rocks.

Charlie Ward. Well, he's gone! There'll soon be none of us left at all. And I never knew what it was he did that brought him to us.

Sabina Silver. Oh, Paul, Paul!

[Begins to keen very low, swaying herself to and fro.

One of the Crowd. [To Charlie Ward.] Was he a friend of yours?

Charlie Ward. He was, indeed. I must do what I can for him now.

One of the Crowd. That's natural, that's natural. It's a pity they did it. They'd best have left him alone. We'd best be going back to the town.

[Sabina Silverraises the keen louder. The Strangers and Charlie Wardtake off their hats.