GOLAUD (with a trembling voice).
Yes; it is the lantern…. See, I shook it to lighten the walls….
PÉLLÉAS.
I stifle here;… let us go out….
GOLAUD.
Yes; let us go out….
[Exeunt in silence.
SCENE IV.—A terrace at the exit of the vaults. Enter GOLAUD and PÉLLÉAS.
PÉLLÉAS.
Ah! I breathe at last!… I thought, one moment, I was going to be ill in those enormous crypts; I was on the point of falling…. There is a damp air there, heavy as a leaden dew, and darkness thick as a poisoned paste…. And now, all the air of all the sea!… There is a fresh wind, see; fresh as a leaf that has just opened, over the little green waves…. Hold! the flowers have just been watered at the foot of the terrace, and the smell of the verdure and the wet roses comes up to us…. It must be nearly noon; they are already in the shadow of the tower…. It is noon; I hear the bells ringing, and the children are going down to the beach to bathe…. I did not know that we had stayed so long in the caverns….