CYRANO.

Well! I had undertaken to speak for you, and I interpreted your love. Sometimes I wrote without saying to you: I'm writing!

CHRISTIAN.

Oh! you did?

CYRANO.

Yes, the simplest thing in the world, as I said!

CHRISTIAN.

But, since we have been hemmed in, how did you manage to....

CYRANO.

Oh!.... Before dawn I could pass through the lines....