It is gloomy in the gardens. And what forests, what forests all about
the palaces!...

GENEVIÈVE.

Yes; that astonished me too when I came hither; it astonishes
everybody. There are places where you never see the sun. But one gets
used to it so quickly.... It is long ago, it is long ago.... It is
nearly forty years that I have lived here.... Look toward the other
side, you will have the light of the sea....

MÉLISANDE.

I hear a noise below us....

GENEVIÈVE.

Yes; it is some one coming up toward us.... Ah! it is Pélléas.... He
seems still tired from having waited so long for you....

MÉLISANDE.

He has not seen us.

GENEVIÈVE.

I think he has seen us but does not know what he should do....
Pélléas, Pélléas, is it thou?...