But, looking at his friend, he discovers "a trouble in thine eye"-an expression of sadness, which his dream will not account for.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
Astolaine discovers the truth; but she, the first of Maeterlinck's strong, emancipated women, feels no jealousy.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
Of a sudden Father Time discovers the children, and comes towards them in a fury, asking them why they are not blue; but Light tells the boy to turn the magic diamond which has preserved them thus far, and she has just time to whisper that she has got the blue bird, when down goes the curtain.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell