The Third Act

"If you persist in pinning your faith on such stuff as this, the least you can do is to make yourself thoroughly acquainted with it. Will you read the third act? No, then i shall read it to you." He turned to the third act and ran over those fragmentary sages which were clearly enough written and expressed to be intelligible to the mind of a stranger. Here is a scene in the vaults of the palace: "The victim of the conspiracy is sleeping on his miserable bed," he said.