THE OLD SERVANT.
I no longer hear anything in the house….
FIRST SERVANT.
You no longer even hear the children breathe….
THE OLD SERVANT.
Come, come; it is time to go up…. [Exeunt in silence.
SCENE II.—An apartment in the castle.
ARKËL, GOLAUD, and the PHYSICIAN discovered in one corner of the room. MÉLISANDE is stretched upon her bed.
THE PHYSICIAN.
It cannot be of that little wound she is dying; a bird would not have died of it…. It is not you, then, who have killed her, good my lord; do not be so disconsolate…. She could not have lived…. She was born without reason … to die; and she dies without reason…. And then, it is not sure we shall not save her….