The ship is in the light.... It is already very far away....

PELLEAS.

It is a foreign ship. It looks larger than ours....

MELISANDE.

It is the ship that brought me here!...

PELLEAS.

It flies away under full sail....

MELISANDE.

It is the ship that brought me here. It has great sails.... I
recognized it by its sails.

PELLEAS.

There will be a rough sea to-night.

MELISANDE.

Why does it go away to-night?... You can hardly see it any longer....
Perhaps it will be wrecked....

PELLEAS.

The sight falls very quickly.... [_A silence._

GENEVIEVE.

No one speaks any more?... You have nothing more to say to each
other?... It is time to go in. Pelleas, show Melisande the way. I mast
go see little Yniold a moment. [_Exit._

PELLEAS.

Nothing can be seen any longer on the sea....

MELISANDE.

I see more lights.

PELLEAS.

It is the other lighthouses.... Do you hear the sea?... It is the wind
rising.... Let us go down this way. Will you give me your hand?

MELISANDE.

See, see, my hands are full....

PELLEAS.

I will hold you by the arm, the road is steep and it is very gloomy
there.... I am going away perhaps to-morrow....

MELISANDE.

Oh!... why do you go away? [_Exeunt._

ACT SECOND.

SCENE I.--_A fountain in the park.

Enter_ PELLEAS _and_ MELISANDE.

PELLEAS.

You do not know where I have brought you?--I often come to sit here,
toward noon, when it is too hot in the gardens. It is stifling to-day,
even in the shade of the trees.

MELISANDE.

Oh, how clear the water is!...

PELLEAS.

It is as cool as winter. It is an old abandoned spring. It seems to
have been a miraculous spring,--it opened the eyes of the blind,--they
still call it "Blind Man's Spring."

MELISANDE.

It no longer opens the eyes of the blind?

PELLEAS.

Since the King has been nearly blind himself, no one comes any
more....

MELISANDE.

How alone one is here!... There is no sound.

PELLEAS.

There is always a wonderful silence here.... One could hear the water
sleep.... Will you sit down on the edge of the marble basin? There is
one linden where the sun never comes....

MELISANDE.

I am going to lie down on the marble.--I should like to see the bottom
of the water....

PELLEAS.

No one has ever seen it.--It is as deep, perhaps, as the sea.--It is
not known whe