There is always a wonderful silence here…. One could hear the water sleep…. Will you sit down on the edge of the marble basin? There is one linden where the sun never comes….
MÉLISANDE.
I am going to lie down on the marble.—I should like to see the bottom of the water….
PÉLLÉAS.
No one has ever seen it.—It is as deep, perhaps, as the sea.—It is not known whence it comes.—Perhaps it comes from the bottom of the earth….
MÉLISANDE.
If there were anything shining at the bottom, perhaps one could see it….
PÉLLÉAS.
Do not lean over so….