What does it do?
GERVASE. You turn it round once and think very hard of anybody you
want, and suddenly the person you are thinking of appears before you.
MELISANDE. How wonderful! Have you tried it yet?
GERVASE. Once. . . . That's why you are here.
MELISANDE. Oh! (Softly) Have you been thinking of me?
GERVASE. All night.
MELISANDE. I dreamed of you all night.
GERVASE (happily). Did you, Melisande? How dear of you to dream of me!
(Anxiously) Was I--was I all right?
MELISANDE. Oh, yes!
GERVASE (pleased). Ah! (He spreads himself a little and removes a
speck of dust from his sleeve)
MELISANDE (thinking of it still). You were so brave.
GERVASE. Yes, I expect I'm pretty brave in other people's dreams--I'm
so cowardly in my own. Did I kill anybody?
MELISANDE. You were engaged in a terrible fight with a dragon when I
woke up.
GERVASE. Leaving me and the dragon still asleep--I mean, still
fighting? Oh, Melisande, how could you leave us until you knew who had
won?
MELISANDE. I tried so hard to get back to you.
GERVASE. I expect I was winning, you know. I wish you could have got
back for the finish. . . . Melisande, let me come into your dreams again
to-night.
MELISANDE. You never asked me last night.
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