nae mair. And sitting up a'
nicht ... it's a _factum imprestabile_, as we say: a thing impossible to
man. Gang ye to your bed, like a guid laddie, and sleep lang and
soundly, and bonnie, bonnie dreams to ye! (_Without._) Let sleeping dogs
lie, and gang ye to your bed.

SCENE III

LESLIE (_calling_). In good time, never fear! (_He carefully bolts and
chains the door._) The old gentleman seems upset. What for, I wonder?
Has he had a masked visitor? Why not? It's the fashion. Out with the
lights. (_Blows out the candles. The stage is only lighted by the moon
through the window._) He is sure to come one night or other. He must
come. Right or wrong, I feel it in the air. Man, but I know you, I know
you somewhere. That trick of the shoulders, the hang of the
clothes--whose are they? Where have I seen them? And then, that single
look of the eye, that one glance about the room as the window opened ...
it is almost friendly; I have caught it over the glass's rim! If it
should be ... his? No, his it is not.

WATCHMAN (_without_). Past ten o'clock, and a fine moonlight night.

ANOTHER (_further away_). Past ten o'clock, and all's well.

LESLIE. Past ten? Ah, there's a long night before you and me, watchmen.
Heavens, what a trade! But it will be something to laugh over with Mary
and ... with him! Damn it, the delusion is too strong for me. It's a
thing to be ashamed of. "We Brodies": how she says it! "We Brodies and
our Deacon": what a pride she takes in it, and how good it sounds to me!
"Deacon of his craft, sir, Deacon of the ..." (_BRODIE, masked, appears
without at the window, which he proceeds to force._) Ha! I knew he'd
come. I was sure of it. (_He crouches near and nearer to the window,
keeping in the shade._) And I know you too. I swear I know you.

SCENE IV

BRODIE, LESLIE

_BRODIE enters by the window with assurance and ease, closes it
silently and proceeds to traverse the room. As he moves, LESLIE leaps
upon and grapples him._

LESLIE. Take off that mask!

BRODIE. Hands off!

LESLIE. Take off that mask!

BRODIE. Leave go, by God, leave go!

LESLIE. Take it off!

BRODIE (_overpowered_). Leslie....

LESLIE. Ah! you know me! (_Succeeds in tearing off the mask._) Brodie!

BRODIE (_in the moonlight_). Brodie.

LESLIE. You ... you, Brodie, you!

BRODIE. Brodie, sir, Brodie, as you see.

LESLIE. What does it mean? What does it mean? My God! Were you here
before? Is this the second time