at another café, 'faust' is entertained by cornelius and valdes, who provide a fountain of wine from a table-top. he watches as a tramp, carrying a severed human leg, is pestered by a large black dog until he throws the limb into the river. 'faust' finds a key in his food, uses it on a shop-front shutter, and is dragged back on stage by waiting stagehands. he mimes a scene from gounod's opera, in which mephisto returns and the pact with lucifer is signed in blood. after the interval, 'faust' visits portugal to demonstrate his supernatural powers to the king: when a requested restaging of the david and goliath contest is poorly received, he drowns the entire portuguese court.