No, little father.--Oh! oh! little father; they never close their eyes.... I am terribly afraid.... GOLAUD. Be still. They do not stir yet? YNIOLD. No, little father.--I am afraid, little father; let me come down!... GOLAUD. Why, what are you afraid of?--Look! look!... YNIOLD. I dare not look any more, little father!... Let me come down!... GOLAUD. Look! look!... YNIOLD. Oh! oh! I am going to cry, little father!--Let me come down! let me come down!,.. GOLAUD. Come; we will go see what has happened. [_Exeunt._ ACT FOURTH SCENE I.--_A corridor in the castle._ _Enter_ PÉLLÉAS _and_ MÉLISANDE, _meeting_. PÉLLÉAS. Where goest thou? I must speak to thee to-night. Shall I see thee? MÉLISANDE. Yes. PÉLLÉAS. I have just left my father's room. He is getting better. The physician has told us he is saved.... And yet this morning I had a presentiment this day would end ill. I have had a rumor of misfortune in my ears for some time.... Then, all at once there was a great change; to-day it is no longer anything but a question of time. All the windows in his room have been thrown open. He speaks; he seems happy. He does not speak yet like an ordinary man, but already his ideas no longer all come from the other world.... He recognized me. He took my hand and said with that strange air he has had since he fell sick: "Is it thou, Pélléas? Why, why, I had not noticed it before, but thou hast the grave and friendly look of those who will not live long.... You must travel; you must travel...." It is strange; I shall obey him.... My mother listened to him and wept for joy.--Hast thou not been aware of it?--The whole house seems already to revive, you hear breathing, you hear speaking, you hear walking.... Listen; I hear some one speaking behind that door. Quick, quick! answer quickly! where shall I see thee? MÉLISANDE. Where wouldst thou? PÉLLÉAS. In the park; near "Blind Man's Spring."--Wilt thou?--Wilt thou come? MÉLISANDE. Yes. PÉLLÉAS. It will be the last night;--I am going to travel, as my father said. Thou wilt not see me more.... MÉLISANDE. Do not say that, Pélléas.... I shall see thee always; I shall look upon thee always.... PÉLLÉAS. Thou wilt look in vain.... I shall be so far away thou couldst no longer see me.... I shall try to go very far away.... I am full of joy, and you would say I had all the weight of heaven and earth on my body to-day.... MÉLISANDE. What has happened, Pélléas?--I no longer understand what you say.... PÉLLÉAS. Go, go; let us separate. I hear some one speaking behind that door.... It is the strangers who came to the castle this morning.... They are going out.... Let us go; it is the strangers.... [_Exeunt severally._ SCENE II.--_An apartment in the castle._ ARKËL _and_ MÉLISANDE _discovered._ ARKËL.