With eager gestures they motioned him to the landing where the old chest stood.

The final tableau, depicted the stricken husband on his knees beside the chest with a portion of the wedding veil in his shaking hands, while the servants, ignorant of the story of the lost bride, looked on in wonder.
During the last tableau Nora softly sang the closing verse and the refrain.

Even after the last note had died away the spectators sat perfectly still for a moment.

Then the applause burst forth and David bowing in acknowledgment, turned and helped Anne out of the chest, where she had lain quietly after hiding.
The chest had been set with the side that opened toward the wall.

While planning for the pantomime the boys had arranged the lid so that it did not close, yet the opening was not perceptible to those seated below.
Thus there had been no danger of Anne meeting the fate of the ill-starred Ginevra, the heroine of the ballad.
"You clever children," cried the old judge.