loudly. The door
slowly opens. MARIAN steals in. ELINOR rises and confronts
her._]

ELINOR

[_Laying a hand upon ROBIN'S bow beside her._]

Hush! Do not wake him!

MARIAN

[_In a low voice._]

What have you done with him?

ELINOR

[_As MARIAN advances towards the couch._]

He is asleep.
Hush! Not a step further! Stay where you are! His life
Hangs on a thread.

MARIAN
Why do you stare upon me?
What have you done? What's this that trickles down--

[_Stoops to the floor and leaps back with a scream._]

It is blood. You have killed him!

ELINOR

[_Seizes the bow and shoots. MARIAN falls._]

Follow him--down to hell.
King John will find you there.

[_Exit. The scene grows dark._]

MARIAN

[_Lifts her head with a groan._]

I am dying, Robin!
O God, I cannot wake him! Robin! Robin!
Give me one word to take into the dark!
He will not wake! He will not wake! O God,
Help him!

[_She falls back unconscious. SHADOW-OF-A-LEAF, a green spray
in his hand, opens the casement and stands for a moment
in the window against the last glow of sunset, then
enters and runs to the side of ROBIN._]

SHADOW-OF-A-LEAF

[_Hurriedly._]

Awake, awake, Robin, awake!
The forest waits to help you! All the leaves
Are listening for your bugle. Ah, where is it?
Let but one echo sound and the wild flowers
Will break thro' these grey walls and the green sprays
Drag down these deadly towers. Wake, Robin, wake,
And let the forest drown the priest's grey song
With happy murmurs. Robin, the gates are open
For you and Marian! All I had to give
I have given to thrust them open, the dear gates
Of fairyland which I shall never pass
Again. I can no more, I am but a shadow,
Dying as mortals die! It is not I
That calls, not I, but Marian. Hear her voice!
Robin, awake!
O, master mine, farewell!

[_Exit lingeringly through the casement._]

ROBIN

[_ROBIN is dimly seen in the mouth of the alcove. He stretches out
his hands blindly in the dark._]

Marian! Why do you call to me in dreams?
Why do you call me? I must go. What's this?
Help me