Ay, for all men the hour of love is an important hour!...
Arielle.
For Lancéor, alas, it is the inexorable hour!... Within these next few days he will reach the summit of his life. With groping hands, he touches happiness and the tomb.... He is dependent entirely on the last steps which he is taking and on the act of the virgin who is coming to meet him....
Merlin.
And if Joyzelle be not she whom fate selects?...
Arielle.
Indeed, I fear that the proof which we are about to attempt is the only one which it offers; but man must never lose courage in face of the future....
Merlin.
Why attempt the proof if it be uncertain?...