GREGORIUS PEDRO: What does he say, brother?
LUCULLUS SEVERUS: Friend, you perplex us. We hoped you would speak to us
of the great world, its gauds, its wickedness, its----
SMOGGS: We won't 'ave it. We won't 'ave none of it, that's all.
LUCULLUS SEVERUS: Tell us, friend, tell us what you mean. Then we will
do whatever you ask. And then you shall speak to us of the world.
SMOGGS: There 'e is, there 'e is, the blighter. There 'e is. 'E's
coming. O Lord...!
[_He turns and runs. Exit._
GREGORIUS PEDRO: It's Antoninus!
LUCULLUS SEVERUS: Why, yes; yes, of course!
GREGORIUS PEDRO: He must have seen him over the garden wall.
LUCULLUS SEVERUS: We must hush it up.
GREGORIUS PEDRO: Hush it up?
LUCULLUS SEVERUS: There must be no scandal in the monastery.
[_Enter_ BROTHER ANTONINUS _wearing a halo. He walks across and exits._
[GREGORIUS _is gazing with wide eyes._
LUCULLUS SEVERUS: There must be no scandal in the monastery.
GREGORIUS PEDRO: It has grown indeed!
LUCULLUS SEVERUS: Yes, it has grown since yesterday.
GREGORIUS PEDRO: I noticed it dimly just three days ago. I noticed it
dimly. But I did not---- I could not guess ... I never dreamed that it
would come to this.
LUCULLUS SEVERUS: Yes, it has grown for three days.
GREGORIUS PEDRO: It was just a dim light over his head, but now.
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