Ella watched everything that happened, and she gave up. It was as simple as that. Lotte wasn't going to listen, and neither was the man who was the Phantom. No matter what she said, she was going to be the bad guy in this scene of star-crossed lovers, and she found she simply did not have the energy for it.
And, admittedly, the death scene request had been childish, if well-intentioned. She didn't think Lotte, who already thought she was Christine, needed any encouragement on that front. But she couldn't save someone who didn't want to be saved, not when she couldn't even save herself.
"Do the balcony scene," she said, sitting down on the rushes and patting the ground beside her for Sherri to join her.