SCENE: A plantation of thin young trees, in a misty and rainy twilight; some woodlandblossom showing the patches on the earth between the stems.THE STRANGER is discovered, a cloaked figure with a pointed hood. His costume mightbelong to modern or any other time, and the conical hood is so drawn over the headthat little can be seen of the face.A distant voice, a woman's, is heard, half-singing, half-chanting, unintelligible words. Thecloaked figure...