(When Guiche recovers from his astonishment the branch has sprung up again, so that Cyrano appears to have fallen from the sky.)

From where did this man drop?

CYRANO (speaking with a Gascon's accent).

From the moon!

GUICHE.

The moon!....

CYRANO (as if dazed).

What time is it? What country is this? What month? What day?

GUICHE.

But, my dear Sir....