DAISY. How long is it going on? How long have I got to wait? Oh, what have I done? The silence is awful. [_There is a silence. Suddenly_ DAISY _breaks out into a shriek_.] No, no, no! I won't have it. I can't bear it. Oh, God help me! [_In the distance of the next courtyard is heard the chanting of the monks at the evening service. The_ AMAH, _having finished her devotions, stands at the doorway looking out steadily_. DAISY _stares straight in front of her. Suddenly there is a loud booming of a gong_. DAISY _starts up_.] What's that?
[_The door of the courtyard is flung open._ HARRY _comes in, through the courtyard, into the room, pushing before him a coolie whom he holds by the wrists and by the scruff of the neck_.
HARRY. I've got one of the blighters. [_Shouting._] Here, bring me a rope.
HARRY. Wait a minute. Thank God, I got there when I did. [WU _brings a rope and_ HARRY _ties the man's wrists behind his back_.] Keep quiet, you devil, or I'll break your ruddy neck. [_He slips the rope through the great iron ring of one of the doors and ties it so that the man cannot get away._] He'll be all right there for the present. I'll just go and telephone to the police station. Wu, you stand outside there. You watch him. Sabe?
[_As_ HARRY _goes out a crowd of people surge through the great open doorway of the courtyard. They are monks of the temple, attracted to the street by the quick rumour of accident, coolies, and the night watchman with his rattle. Some of them bear Chinese lanterns, some hurricane lamps. The crowd separates out as they approach the room and then it is seen that three men are bearing what seems to be the body of a man_.
AMAH. I think belong foreign man. [_The men bring in the body and lay it on the sofa. The head and part of the chest are covered with a piece of blue cotton._ DAISY _and the_ AMAH _look at it with dismay. They dare not approach. The_ ABBOT _drives the crowd out of the room and shuts the doors, only leaving that side of one open at which the prisoner is attached. The_ AMAH _turns on the god in the niche_.] You say can do. What for you make mistake?
[_She seizes a fan which is on the table under her hand and with angry violence hits the image on the face two or three times._ DAISY _has been staring at the body. She goes up to it softly and lifts the cloth slightly, she gives a start, and with a quick gesture snatches it away. She sees George Conway_.