"Her voice was [still] beautiful, and as she sang the theatre murmured like a hive of happy bees. All through the coloratura she was accompanied by sighs, and its top note was drowned in a shout of universal joy. So the opera proceeded. The singers drew inspiration from the audience. ... Harriet was tying to follow the plot. ... The climax was reached in the mad scene. One of the men in boxes hurled a bouquet at Lucia. She spurned it with her foot. Then, encouraged by the roars of the audience, she picked it up." Whose it it. The innamorato is to the left. The conductor raised the baton. Lucia resumed her song of madness and death. Edgardo was singing at the tomb of ancestors.