Photography by Sherry Eckstein.

Beauty prepares for sleep; the stage darkens except for the candlelight in her room. She sets the rose on the bed-table, and reclines on the bed. The lights dim.
As the ballet begins, on the other side of the stage, a mirror appears, the same as in her chamber in the Beast’s palace. Beauty is seen as in Act 2, before the dressing-mirror. The Prince appears behind her and the Beast simultaneously appears in the mirror, visible also to the audience - in action and dress they are mirror images.
As in the former scene, she looks up and sees the Beast in the mirror - but when she turns, it is the Prince she sees. She waltzes with the Prince, the Beast fades from view. Then the Prince is replaced by the Beast in her dance, who holds out his hand to her imploringly, and she turns in fear and confusion to discover the Prince, beckoning to her with the same gestures as the Beast. The Prince comes towards her and is about to reach her when she turns again to the Beast, who begins to fade away, pleading with her to follow. She is filled with indecision, and when she looks for the Prince, he too has disappeared.
Beauty suddenly awakens, as the light returns to her bed and again covers the rest of the stage in darkness.

Beauty:
   Oh, my poor, poor Beast! He calls to me; he needs me, and I am far away!

(She suddenly sees with a cry that the Rose, which she had placed on her bedside table, is wilting.)

Beauty:
   Ah! The Rose is dying!
   Dear Father, forgive me, forgive me, dear sisters, but my place is with him.
   I know something is wrong - I go to him now!

(She runs quickly out, taking the Rose, as the curtain rapidly descends.)