On the Saint's bed! On the Saint's bed! Some boards are laid upon the broken slabs of stone which lead up to Benedetto's door, and the two invalids are half pushed, half carried up, by the surging crowd.

There they lie, crosswise upon the Saint's pallet.
The crowd fills the cave.

All fall upon their knees in prayer.
It is indeed a cave.

One whole side of it is a wall of yellowish rock, hewn obliquely.

The bare, uneven earth forms the floor.