The break comes to a close and the session resumes.
Hans asks to have someone else be the mediator, but
Krokowski refuses his request, and Hans sits back down in his seat facing
Elly. The gramophone is turned on again, and Elly reenters a trance state, and then more hours pass with nothing happening. When one of the disks on the gramophone ends, Hans suggests they play a specific piece, a song from Gounod’s
Faust, next. He explains that it will help set a particular “emotional state” and that the piece is “quite special.” The music begins.