Elena moves forward in the darkness—"'Tis here, my brother said, we'd meet." She moves cautiously in the darkness; Andrés enters stealthily. Romeo moves onward, Julia holding his cloak. Romeo passes close to Elena, and whispers to Julia to hold his cloak tightly. Julia stumbles, but immediately regains her footing, and by mistake seizes Andrés' cloak, Elena seizing Romeo's. Julia whispers, “Where waits the carriage, love?" Andrés recognizes her voice, and thus the scene closes, with exeunt through one door Romeo and Elena, and through another Andrés and Julia.
So ends the second act.
THE third act opens exactly where the second act
closed, the stage being still darkened. Enter
Romeo, and Elena holding his cloak.
Romeo.
Speak, Julia, love! speak, speak, my sweetest life!
The day is flickering in the eastern sky,
But darkness still denies me sight of thee.
Let mine ear drink that sweetest of all music,
Julia's voice!
Elena (aside).
Julia's voice! Julia! alas! she's dead—
And yet I dare not breathe the truth to him.
