LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC. 107
SCENE II.
A year later. Vaughan's house in Mayfair. Peres
bedroom. Moonlight streams through open window
tn the corridor. Percy asleep. He dreams un-
easily, and after a little wakes up with a start and
@ Cry.
PERCY.
H! I had such a bad dream. I dreamt I was
straining out after a beautiful bird, and suddenly
it stopped, and then I held it in my hands, and it was
happy, and then I dropped down somehow into the
darkness and the bird had gone—only it got so con-
fused, and I woke up. I hear steps!
ESME [22 corridor].
Did you call, Percy? I heard a cry as if you were
in pain. |
PERCY.
Esmé, I will come and talk to you in the moon-
light. I want to say something that I couldn’t say
before, because my heart choked me.
ESME.
Come out, Percy, the moon is so white, looking out
of the black sky. The sky is quite black near the
moon; only far down where there are no more bright
stars it is a deep, deep blue. It is bluer and deeper
than the sea. | .