‘Tis so!

He is her lover! Oh, he loves her true!—

What will they say and whisper all the night

Through light and shadow on the road to Vannes?

Despair!—But I’ll not stay within these walls!

[Knocking at the door in the wall. Yvette crosses

the stage to the door.

Who is there?

Séraphine (within)

Yvette! Yvette!