Scene III
Reading edition
On the base of Aether Mountain.
Right, heather sloping up to left, which is rugged with tumbled grey rocks.
Further left all the scene is filled with the rising bulk of Aether Mountain.
Low down, far off and small in the background to the right appears a little palace of pure gold.
Enter right the Queen running untired and nimble, unchecked by those grey rocks.
Following her the tired Princes come.
Zoon is no longer last, but about fourth, and gaining.
Meliflor leads.
Meliflor: Permit me, great lady. My hand over the rocks. Permit ...
[He falls and cannot rise.
Moomoomon: Permit me. (He falls too.) These rocks; it is these rocks.
Ximenung (going wearily): Great lady. A moment. One moment, great lady. Allow me.
[But Zoon does not speak. Exeunt L. the Queen and those Princes that have not fallen. The curtain falls on stragglers crossing the stage.