And I also, I want to speak to you, madame. I have a right to reproach you! To keep me away, to exile me so long! Ah, it wouldn't be thus if you thought of me during these hours of absence as I think of you!
THE QUEEN.
You are unjust. Since you left me, I have thought of no one but you!
FABIANI.
Is that really true? Does so much happiness belong to me? Say it to me again!
THE QUEEN (always smiling).
I swear it to you!
FABIANI.
Then you do indeed love me as I love you?
THE QUEEN.