All the stage folk enter the church save Santuzza and Lucia, and to the mother of her betrayer the maiden tells the story of her wrongs.

The romance which she sings is marked by the copious use of one of the distinguishing devices of the veritist composers--the melodic triplet, an efficient help for the pushing, pulsating declamation with which the dramatic dialogue of Mascagni, Leoncavallo, and their fellows is carried on.

Lucia can do no more for the unfortunate than commend her to the care of the Virgin.

She enters the church and Turiddu comes.

He lies as to where he has been.