ASTOLAINE.
Is she there?
PALOMIDES (in the apartment).
I cannot see…. The shutters are closed….
ASTOLAINE.
Have a care, Palomides…. Wilt thou that I go first?… Thy voice is trembling….
PALOMIDES (in the apartment).
No, no…. I see a ray of sunlight falling through the chinks of the shutters.
ONE OF THE SISTERS.
Yes; it is broad day out of doors.