Behold him! (MIMI coughs persistently)
What coughing!
MIMI. Unceasingly it shakes me,
And Rudolph now forsakes me.
And says to me, "It is over!"
At daybreak swift escaping,
I hurried here to find him.
MAR. (watching RUDOLPH inside the tavern)
He's moving, waking, and wants me.
Come, then.
MIMI. He must not see me.
MAR. Well, hide yourself out there.
(Points to the plane-trees. MIMI hides behind the trees.)
RUD. (coming out of the inn, hastens towards MARCEL)
Marcel! at last I've found you,
Where none can hear us.
I want a separation from Mimi.
MAR. Is that your latest whim?
RUD. Love in my heart was dying, almost was dead,
But her blue eyes new glory on me shed.
Love, swift revived, all me; what woe is mine!