MÉLISANDE.

No, no; the great window … the great window…. It is to see….

ARKËL.

Is not the sea air too cold to-night? Do it; do it….

MÉLISANDE.

Thanks…. Is it sunset?

ARKËL.

Yes; it is sunset on the sea; it is late.—How are you, Mélisande?

MÉLISANDE.

Well, well.—Why do you ask that? I have never been better.—And yet it seems to me I know something….