Meliflor: It is the Queen! She laughed.

Huz: Could she have guessed...?

Moomoomon: I trust not.

Meliflor: She—she—cannot have been thinking of us.

Moomoomon: She—she—seldom laughs.

Huz: What can it be?

Moomoomon: Perhaps it was nothing and yet ...

Meliflor: Yet it makes me uneasy.

Moomoomon: It is not that I fear, but, when a queen laughs—it makes a feeling in the palace—as though all were not well.

Huz: It makes one have forebodings. One cannot help it.