(The daylight has now come.)

[Scene 4.III.]

The SAME. Cyrano.

CYRANO (appearing from the tent, very calm, with a pen stuck behind his ear and a book in his hand):
What is wrong?
(Silence. To the first cadet):
Why drag you your legs so sorrowfully?

THE CADET:
I have something in my heels which weighs them down.

CYRANO:
And what may that be?

THE CADET:
My stomach!

CYRANO:
So have I, ’faith!

THE CADET:
It must be in your way?

CYRANO:
Nay, I am all the taller.