(_Drawing back violently._) Ah, do not touch me, or I shall summon death to come to put an end to this horrible dream!... I know not what phantoms have haunted this night, but this is the vilest, the basest, the most cowardly that the darkness has sent!... I do not believe in it yet!... I am bruising my eyes in trying to awake myself!... Ah, do not come near me!... Back!... Begone!... You fill me with horror!... MERLIN. Look at me, Joyzelle!... I do not understand you; and doubtless sleep still troubles.... JOYZELLE. Where is he?... MERLIN. Wake, Joyzelle.... JOYZELLE. Where is he and what have you done with him?... MERLIN. He is wherever I am; and, if your eyes mislead you.... JOYZELLE. Do you not know that I carry him here, in these eyes which see you and compare what he is with what you are?... Have you not seen what he is in my heart, that you should copy him thus?... You, beside him; you, in his clothes and under his aspect: ah, it is as though death pretended to be life!... But there might be twenty thousand of you resembling him and he alone be changed from what he was yesterday; and I would sweep away the twenty thousand phantoms, to go to the only man who is not a dream among the other dreams!... Oh, do not try to hide in the shadow.... You retreat too late; I have discovered you and I know who you are... I know your spells; and how I should laugh at them, did I not fear that, by your witchcraft, when usurping that dear and unrecognizable shape, you have caused him to suffer!... What have you done to him?... Where is he?... I will know.... You shall not go without answering.... (_Seizing MERLIN'S hand._) I am alone, I am weak.... But I insist, I insist.... I will know, I will know!... MERLIN.