out of his Sunday clothes and into fisherman's gear. Though it is a Sunday he hastily prepares to set out to fish as he has seen a large school of herring. Grimes becomes lost in his memories of his previous apprentice, reliving the boy's death of thirst. When he hears the mob of townspeople approaching, he quickly snaps back to reality, stirred both by a paranoid belief that John has been gossiping with Ellen, so provoking the anger of the town against him; and at the same time angrily defiant. He warns John to be careful climbing down the cliff to the boat. But to no avail: in their haste the boy slips to his death below. When the mob reaches the hut Grimes and the apprentice are not to be found, so they disperse, curious and suspicious. Act 3 The same, two days later, night in the Borough ("Moonlight" in the Sea Interludes). At a town dance, Mrs Sedley tries to convince the authorities that Grimes is a murderer. Ellen and Captain Balstrode confide in each other: Grimes has disappeared, and Balstrode has discovered a jersey washed ashore. Ellen recognises it as one she had knitted for John. Mrs Sedley overhears this, and with the knowledge that Grimes has returned, is able to whip up another vigilante mob. Singing "Him who despises us we'll destroy", the villagers march off searching for Grimes. (The sixth interlude, not included in the concert version of the Sea Interludes, covers the change of scene.) While the townspeople can be heard off-stage hunting for the fisherman, Grimes appears onstage singing a monologue, interspersed by cries from the mob and by a mournful fog horn (a solo tuba). The death of his second apprentice has shattered Grimes who sounds panicked, distracted and unfocused. Ellen and Balstrode discover him before the furious townspeople get there, and the sea captain advises Grimes the best thing is to sail to sea and drown himself by scuppering his boat. Silently, Grimes walks out. The next morning life in the Borough begins as usual as if nothing has happened, though there is a report from the coastguard of a boat seen sinking far off the coast. This is dismissed by Auntie as "one of these rumours." Sea Interludes To cover the scene changes during the opera Britten wrote six orchestral interludes. Five of them have been published separately. The Four