Have a care to keep the lamp lit from this evening, Pélléas….
[Exeunt severally.
SCENE IV.—Before the castle. Enter GENEVIÈVE and MÉLISANDE.
MÉLISANDE.
It is gloomy in the gardens. And what forests, what forests all about the palaces!…
GENEVIÈVE.
Yes; that astonished me too when I came hither; it astonishes everybody. There are places where you never see the sun. But one gets used to it so quickly…. It is long ago, it is long ago…. It is nearly forty years that I have lived here…. Look toward the other side, you will have the light of the sea….
MÉLISANDE.
I hear a noise below us….