Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home

by Maurice Maeterlinck

GOLAUD.

You are still waiting in the dark?

YNIOLD.

I have brought a light, little mother, a big light!… [He lifts the lamp and looks at MÉLISANDE.] You have been weeping, little mother?… You have been, weeping?… [He lifts the lamp toward PÉLLÉAS and looks in turn at him.] You too, you too, you have been weeping?… Little father, look, little father; they have both been weeping….