O salutaris Hostia!

Quae coeli pandis ostium:

Bella premunt hostilia,

Da robur fer auxilium!

[Above the wall where it is shadowed by a fruit

tree, appear the head and shoulders of Lalain. He

draws himself up to the coping, watches Yvette

for a moment, then swings himself down to the garden.

He has a rose in his hand.

Yvette