Paul (sadly). Even though the sun is already sinking.... Possibly there is still time.
Antoinette. I shall do anything for you and you will do anything for me.... We agree to that! (They look into each other's eyes.)
Paul (gently). Do you remember, Toinette, on this very spot ...?
Antoinette. Ten years ago? I do! I do!
Paul. How strangely all has come about and how necessary nevertheless! So predestined! So inexorable! Fate! Fate!
Antoinette (brooding). I hung upon your lips and you ignored me! I had ceased to exist for you!
Paul. And so we lost each other.
Antoinette. But today, today we have found each other once more, oh lover of my youth!
Paul. Late, Toinette, so late!
Antoinette. Heavens, how stupid I was in those days!