ARKËL.

What sayest thou?—I do not understand thee….

MÉLISANDE.

Neither do I understand all I say, you see…. I do not know what I am saying…. I do not know what I know…. I no longer say what I would….

ARKËL.

Why, yes! why, yes!… I am quite happy to hear thee speak so; thou hast raved a little these last days, and one no longer understood thee…. But now all that is far away….

MÉLISANDE.

I do not know….—Are you all alone in the room, grandfather?

ARKËL.

No; there is the physician, besides, who cured thee….