MELISANDE (looking at it). What does it do?
GERVASE. You turn it round once and think very hard of anybody you want, and suddenly the person you are thinking of appears before you.
MELISANDE. How wonderful! Have you tried it yet?
GERVASE. Once. . . . That's why you are here.
MELISANDE. Oh! (Softly) Have you been thinking of me?
GERVASE. All night.
MELISANDE. I dreamed of you all night.
GERVASE (happily). Did you, Melisande? How dear of you to dream of me! (Anxiously) Was I—was I all right?
MELISANDE. Oh, yes!
GERVASE (pleased). Ah! (He spreads himself a little and removes a speck of dust from his sleeve)