Arielle.
Faithful in sleep and constant in her dreams!... The demons of the night will steal nothing from the love that fills the past and future of a heart!... Ah, my master and father!... It is she whom your only hope awaited, in vain, to avert the fate that threatens your old age!... O master, if you be willing, there is yet time; and happiness is here: you have but to gather it!... It sways uncertain between your son and you; a gesture would be enough to fix it upon ourselves.... Come hither, she is yours!... Come, come, come, I am calling you.... I know that I am right and that man must not renounce life and ruin himself to save those whom he loves....
Merlin.
(In the distance, in a voice of grave reproach.) Arielle!...
[He enters, wrapped in a long cloak.
Arielle.
I am speaking for you and my voice is your voice.... I speak in the name of your heart, which loves deeply and dares not confess it.... You had, at this prescribed moment, to meet that sleeping woman, in order to avoid one who will destroy your old age....
Merlin.
Begone, it is too late....
Arielle.