From Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home by Maurice Maeterlinck

You see, Alladine, my hands do not tremble, my heart beats like a sleeping child's, and my voice has not once been stirred with wrath. I bear no ill-will to Palomides, although what he has done might seem unpardonable. And as for thee, who could bear thee ill-will? You obey laws you do not know, and you could not act otherwise, I will not speak to you of what took place the other day along the palace moats, nor of all the unforeseen death of the lamb might have revealed to me, had I believed in omens for an instant. But last night I surprised the kiss you gave each other under the windows of Astolaine. At that moment I was with her in her room. She has a soul that fears so much to trouble, with a tear or with a simple movement of her eyelids, the happiness of those about her, that I shall never know if she, as I, surprised that wretched kiss. But I know what she has the power to suffer. I shall not ask you anything you cannot avow to me, but I would know if you had any secret design in following Palomides under the window where you must have seen us. Answer me without fear; you know beforehand I will pardon everything. (ALLADINE: I did not kiss him.) What? You did not kiss Palomides, and Palomides did not kiss you? (ALLADINE: No.) Ah!... Listen: I came here to forgive you everything.... I thought you had acted as we almost all act, without aught of our soul intervening.... But now I will know all that passed.... You love Palomides, and you have kissed him under my eyes....

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