De Vardes
It hath been many days I’ve been away,
To Morbec and to Vannes and to Vitré.
Yvette
I thought that thou wouldst never come again!
De Vardes
Didst think the night had ceased to long for day?
Didst think the tide no more obeyed the moon?
The reed no longer bowed unto the wind?
Yvette