Alladine Monologue from Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home

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

female · anguished · 59 sec

Why dost thou answer when I question thee? (PALOMIDES: What matter where we be, if we be but together?...) Thou lovest me less already? (PALOMIDES: Why, what ails thee?) I know well where I am when I am on thy heart.... Oh, tear the bandage off!... I would not enter blind into thy soul.... What doest thou, Palomides? Thou dost not laugh when I laugh. Thou dost not weep when I weep. Thou dost not clap thy hands when I clap mine; and thou tremblest not when I speak trembling to the bottom of my soul.... The band! The band!... I will see!... There, there, above my hair!... (She tears away the bandage.) Oh!...

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