ROXANE:
Oh, bid him write!
You’ll tell me all one day—A hundred men!—
Ah, brave!. . .How brave!

CYRANO (bowing to her):
I have fought better since.

(She goes out. Cyrano stands motionless, with eyes on the ground. A silence. The door (right) opens. Ragueneau looks in.)

[Scene 2.VII.]

Cyrano, Ragueneau, poets, Carbon de Castel-Jaloux, the cadets, a crowd, then De Guiche.

RAGUENEAU:
Can we come in?

CYRANO (without stirring):
Yes. . .

(Ragueneau signs to his friends, and they come in. At the same time, by door at back, enters Carbon de Castel-Jaloux, in Captain’s uniform. He makes gestures of surprise on seeing Cyrano.)

CARBON:
Here he is!

CYRANO (raising his head):
Captain!. . .