We cannot go back now?--Hearest thou the bolts?--Listen! listen!... the great chains!... the great chains!... It is too late; it is too late!... MÉLISANDE. All the better! all the better! all the better!... PÉLLÉAS. Thou--...? Behold, behold!... It is no longer we who will it so!... All's lost, all's saved! all is saved to-night!--Come, come.... My heart beats like a madman,--up to my very throat.... [_They embrace._] Listen! listen! my heart is almost strangling me.... Come! come!... Ah, how beautiful it is in the shadows!... MÉLISANDE. There is some one behind us!... PÉLLÉAS. I see no one.... MÉLISANDE. I heard a noise.... PÉLLÉAS. I hear only thy heart in the dark.... MÉLISANDE. I heard the crackling of dead leaves.... PÉLLÉAS. Because the wind is silent all at once.... It fell as we were kissing.... MÉLISANDE. How long our shadows are to-night!... PÉLLÉAS. They embrace to the very end of the garden. Oh, how they kiss far away from us!... Look! look!... MÉLISANDE.(_a stifled voice_). A-a-h!--He is behind a tree! PÉLLÉAS. Who? MÉLISANDE. Golaud! PÉLLÉAS. Golaud!--where?--I see nothing.... MÉLISANDE. There ... at the end of our shadows. PÉLLÉAS. Yes, yes; I saw him.... Let us not turn abruptly.... MÉLISANDE. He has his sword.... PÉLLÉAS. I have not mine.... MÉLISANDE. He saw us kiss.... PÉLLÉAS. He does not know we have seen him.... Do not stir; do not turn your head.... He would rush headlong on us.... He will remain there while he thinks we do not know. He watches us.... He is still motionless.... Go, go at once this way.... I will wait for him.... I will stop him.... MÉLISANDE. No, no, no!... PÉLLÉAS. Go! go! he has seen all!... He will kill us!... MÉLISANDE. All the better! all the better! all the better!... PÉLLÉAS. He comes! he comes!... Thy mouth!... Thy mouth!... MÉLISANDE. Yes!... yes! yes!... [_They kiss desperately._ PÉLLÉAS Oh! oh! All the stars are falling!... MÉLISANDE. Upon me too! upon me too!... PÉLLÉAS. Again! Again!... Give! give!... MÉLISANDE. All! all! all!... [Golaud rushes upon them, sword in hand, and strikes Pélléas, who falls at the brink of the fountain. Mélisande flees terrified.] MÉLISANDE. (_fleeing_). Oh! oh! I have no courage I ... I have no courage!... [GOLAUD _pursues her through the wood in silence._ ACT FIFTH. SCENE I.--_A lower hall in the castle. The women servants discovered, gathered together, while without children are playing before one of the ventilators of the hall._ AN OLD SERVANT. You will see, you will see, my daughters; it will be to-night.--Some one will come to tell us by and by.... ANOTHER SERVANT. They will not come to tell us.... They don't know what they are doing any longer.... THIRD SERVANT. Let us wait here.... FOURTH SERVANT. We shall know well enough when we must go up.... FIFTH SERVANT.