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PRINCESS KALYANI

FIRST ACT

PROLOGUE

The curtain rises on a wood-land scene, on which a crescent moon shed its silvery light. In the back-ground is seen the motionless figure of a woman, with eyes gazing upwards and hands joined together in deep meditation, standing knee-deep flowering plants and dressed in the loose saffron-coloured robe of an Indian devotee. Her hair is gathered into a knot in which is stuck a feathery white quill.

Suddenly she sways slightly and gazing sadly at the audience speaks thus in resonant tones:

CLAIRVOYANTE

How pitiful! I see before me the folly and misery of man-kind! The light of truth shines overhead, but they see it not. They are

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