The World's Most Famous Operas
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Scene Three: A terrace before the castle.

Golaud and Pelléas emerge from the dark vaults, and Pelléas expresses his relief at breathing the fresh air once more, pointing out that the children are running down to the shore to swim, while he can see Mélisande and his mother together inside the castle tower. Golaud warns him against long meetings with Mélisande.

Scene Four: A terrace before Mélisande's tower in the castle.

Golaud is on the terrace with his small son Yniold, the fruit of an earlier marriage. He questions him about Pelléas and Mélisande; but all he can learn is that they meet often, that they speak of him, that they weep, and that they seem afraid. Golaud lifts the boy high so that he can look into the room. The innocent child soon reports to his wretched, tormented father that Pelléas and Mélisande are together, silent, gazing at the light. The child grows frightened and begs his father to put him down. And so Golaud goes off, deeply shaken, having learned nothing.

Act Four

Scene One: A room in the castle.

Pelléas and Mélisande meet briefly in one of the castle rooms, and he announces to her his resolve to depart the following day, saying she will never see him again after that. They agree to meet one last time that night in the garden. They part, and only moments later the aged King Arkel enters in Mélisande's company, speaking to her of a smiling future in words that breathe reassurance. Presently Golaud arrives in the strangest state

of rage and fury; he pushes his wife aside and orders her to bring him his sword, then lays it aside and begins to interrogate her.

He speaks of her apparent innocence — an innocence

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