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Act Five
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Hammill Peter
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CHORUS Late that evening the Lady Madeline
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again succumbed to the power
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of her dark afflictions.
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Her brother and her friend sat by her
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and Montresor, although familiar with many
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of the gross and wonderful
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phenomena of morbid flesh
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marvelled at the depth and completeness of her coma.
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Life so exactly mirroring death
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that only the merest of involuntary pulses
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betrayed the presence of a Spirit hiding within.
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In the cold hours before dawn they broke their vigil
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and Montresor retired to a restless sleep
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only to be woken as a grey light spread from the east
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across the leaden tarn.
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(Usher and the Herbalist enter)
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USHER Montresor,
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she is dead.
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She is dead,
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I sat by her,
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I watched her;
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I am alone.
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USHER, That she should die so,
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MONTRESOR, that she should die so young,
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HERBALIST fate is cruel, fate is hard.
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Why must innocence be punished?
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Need a flower fall so fast?
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Why must innocence be punished?
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Was her soul too good to last?
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Now the punishment is finished
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And the fever... the fever called 'Living'...
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that fever's conquered at last.
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USHER Will you do something for me?
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MONTRESOR With all my heart
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USHER I wish my sister to be entombed
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in one of the vaults beneath the House.
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The family burial ground is remote,
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to lead her cortege there would
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require a strength of will I do not command.
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Will you help me bear her?
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MONTRESOR Of course, of course I will...
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USHER Come then, before I fully realise my loss.
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End of Act Five
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