All are sorrowful, cast down. Roman Centurion stands between women and the crosses. All remain motionless as Scripture is read. At the end of the second verse, weeping women start leaving slowly. Four of them stop to talk.
Soloist saves third verse until curtain closes.
And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. And the sun was darkened. And the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. Now when the Centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was the Son of God. And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.