I am going to write another letter.
(Enters tent.)
SCENE II.
The same, less CYRANO.
Day is dawning. Rosy tints in the sky, and golden ones on the distant city. A gun is heard, then drums beat in the distance, to the left. Other drums are heard, successively, nearer, and nearer, until they sound on the stage, the noise then receding gradually, toward the right. Awakening of the Camp. Officers' commands in the distance.
CARBON (sighing).
Reveille!.... Alas!
(the Cadets begin rising.)
Their dream of dinner is finished.... I know what their cry will be now.
A CADET (rising).