Then out he goes,

A-weeping hard—Jehan—into the night.

Ouf! how it blew!—

The sea ran high, he met it in the dark,

Was drowned! Yvonne went with the ebb. Behold

Yvette!

[Séraphine retreats to the table, where she furtively

drinks from a half-emptied wineglass. Lalain follows

her and the two talk together.

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