ISMENE, ✎ has entered, calling. ✎ — Antigone! ... Ah! you're here. 🔊✎
ANTIGONE, ✎ without moving. ✎ — Yes, I'm here. 🔊✎
ISMENE ✎ —I couldn't sleep. I was afraid you'd go out and try and bury him even though it's day. 🔊✎ Antigone, little sister, we're all here around you, Haemon and nurse and me, and Grace, your dog. We love you and us, we're all alive, and we need you. 🔊✎ Polynices is dead and he didn't love you. He was always a stranger to us, a bad brother. 🔊✎ Forget him, Antigone, the way he forgot us. Let his ghost wander for ever without a grave, because that's what Creon's law says. 🔊✎ Don't try to do something that's too hard for you. You're never afraid, but you're just a little girl. Stay with us, don't go out tonight, please Antigone. 🔊✎
ANTIGONE, ✎ has got up, a strange little smile on her lips, she goes towards the door and on the threshold, softly, she says... ✎ — Too late. This morning, when you met me, I'd just done it. 🔊✎