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

We are in the part of the garden behind the house. They never come here. The doors are on the other side.--They are closed, and the shutters are up. But there are no shutters on this side, and I saw a light.... Yes; they are sitting up still under the lamp. It is fortunate they have not heard us; the mother or the young girls would have come out, perhaps, and then what should we have done?... (THE STRANGER: What are we going to do?) I should like to see, first, if they are all in the room. Yes, I see the father sitting in the chimney-corner. He waits, with his hands on his knees;... the mother is resting her elbow on the table. (THE STRANGER: She is looking at us....) No; she doesn't know where she is looking: her eyes do not wink. She cannot see us; we are in the shade of great trees. But do not go any nearer.... The two sisters of the dead girl are in the room too. They are embroidering slowly; and the little child is asleep. It is nine by the clock in the corner.... They suspect nothing, and they do not speak.

The Old Man Monologue from Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home

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