Thinking on the demon's parting words, Seeda decides that her position is hopeless.  She takes a cord from her breast cloth and, singing a plaintive love song to herself, walks down to the lotus pool.  The burden of her song is that although she must part from Phra Ram in this world, in the next they will be together forever.  She climbs a sturdy tree close to the pool and fastens one end of the cord to a limb.  With the other, she makes noose and puts it around her delicate neck.  She takes her final look at the world of stars and waving branches and dim flowers and, with her last thoughts on Phra Ram, allows herself to fall.  The noose tightens, and Nang Seeda quickly becomes unconscious.