[Genealogical chart drops from wall and rolls up on floor.] Break
into shatters, crown and sceptre, tyranny's symbols! [Crown and
sceptre come down with a crash.] Tumble throne, where unrighteousness
is seated! [Throne collapses. Thunder, lightning, storm.] Scatter
like decoys, fortune hunters and outcasts that have placed
yourselves between noble and commoner! [All but bride disappear. To
bride.] You lamb of sacrifice, be free like myself! Now I want to
go out into Nature and see if honor and decency do not still live!
[Bride vanishes; Pehr remains standing, hands to face, until scene
is changed.]


SCENE TWO.

Seashore with wreckage of cast up seaweed, etc. To left an
up-rooted oak-stump, fishing tackle and hulk of a wrecked vessel.
Background: open sea; seamews float on waves. To right cliff-shore
with pine woods; lower down is a hut.

PEHR. Where am I? I breathe freer--All evil thoughts flee! I sense
a perfume as of old romances; I hear a murmur, like far-away
streams; the ground under me is soft as a bed. Ah--it is the
seashore!

O Sea! Thou Mother Earth's good mother!
Be greeted by an old and withered heart
Which comes that it may be by thy moist winds
Swept clean and freshened;
Which comes to thy salt waves for cleansing baths
And healing for the sores the world's lies and madness gave to it.