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DON (PHANTOM - behind the curtain)
- Go away!
For the trap is set and for its prey . . .
(PASSARINO leaves. (AMINTA) enters. She
takes off her cloak and sits down. Looks her. No-
one. She starts on an apple. The PHANTOM, as
DON pretending to
be PASSARINO, emerges. He now PASSARINO's
robe, the cowl of hides his face. His first words
her)
DON (PHANTOM)
You have come here in of
your deepest urge, in of
wish, which till now
has been silent, . . .

I brought you, that our passions
may fuse and merge, in your
you've already to me
dropped all defences succumbed to me, now you are here with me:
no thoughts, you've decided,
. . .

Past the point of no -
no backward
the of make believe
are at an end . . .

the point of "if" or "when" -
no use
thought,
and let the dream . . .

raging fire shall flood the soul?
What rich desire its door?
What sweet seduction before us . . .?
the point of no return,
the final threshold, warm,
unspoken secrets we learn?
the point
of no . . .

(CHRISTINE)
You have brought me to that
where words run dry, to that
where speech into silence,
. . .

I come here, hardly knowing
the why . . .
In my mind, already
our bodies entwining
defenseless and -
and now I am here with
no second thoughts, decided,
. . .

Past the point of no
no going now:
our has now, at last,
. . .

Past all thought of or wrong -
one question:
how long we two wait, before
one . . .?

When will the blood begin to
the sleeping bud into bloom?
will the flames, at last, consume
us . . .?

Past the of no return
the final threshold, the
is crossed, so and watch it burn . . .

We've passed the of no return . . .
(By now the audience and the POLICE realized that SIGNOR PIANGI is dead behind the curtain, and it is
the PHANTOM who sings in his place. CHRISTINE knows it too. As final confirmation, the sings):

Say you'll with me one
love, one . . .
Lead me, me from my solitude . . .
(He takes from his a ring and holds it out to her.
she takes it and puts it on her finger.)
Say you want me you,
beside you . . .
you go let me go too,
Christine all I ask of . . .
(We never reach the word 'you', for quite calmly reveals the PHANTOM'S face to the audience. As
the FORCES OF LAW in on the horrifying skull,
the sweeps his cloak around her and vanishes. MEG pulls the curtain upstage, revealing PIANGI'S
body garotted, against the bed, his head gruesomely tilted to one side. She screams.)