Pelleas held her hands, and waited for her lips to be turned to his. Instead, he saw lowered lids and quivering lashes, lips that were plaintive, a face white beneath a wealth of hair.

“Ah, Igraine, you do not look at me.”

Her eyes trembled up to his with a sudden infinite lustre.

“Pelleas!”

“Girl, girl!”

“Ah, I have hardly slept.”

“Nor I, Igraine.”

“I think I am worn out with thinking of you.”

“Ha, little woman, you are extravagant; you will die like a flower even while I hold you in my bosom.”