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.